Mozilla stopped working

Toth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 133

Mozilla has stopped working. When starting Mozilla, it takes my PC about a full minute or two before mozilla initially appears. After that it looks like it is trying to load the home page but it just sits there. I have let it sit there for 10 minutes and it never does anything else. Running strace, it appears to be doing something (several writev calls, etc., whatever they mean) but it just doesn't do anything.

I have tried moving the ~/.mozilla folder and running it...nothing. I have tried unmerging and re-merging mozilla...nothing. For reference, Mozilla 1.2.1-r5 is the version currently installed.

Recently, I ran an emerge -u world to update my system. After it completed Mozilla ran fine. The next day (today) after a reboot, Mozilla still worked. I then bookmarked a set of tabs, another page, adjusted my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to fine-tune anti-alias settings (as I have done in the past and everything continued to work fine). I then shutdown the X-server and restarted it. From that point on Mozilla has not worked properly. Any suggestions?

Esben · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:44 pm Post subject: Profiles

...are the weak link in Mozilla, IMHO. Try mozilal --help, and then try to start the profile manager. If that works, try creating a fresh profile. If it doesn't work.. well, there's always lynx :-/
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Toth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 133

Heh, I tried that...if I bring up the profile manager it will take it a good minute or two just to bring it up. After that if I click "Start Mozilla" or anything, for that matter (create profile, etc.) it pretty much just hangs there.

Esben · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 9:32 pm Post subject: kill it, then

try finding out where gentoo stores mozilla and kill it, then reemerge it. The first time mozilla starts it registers a bunch of .so's. That loader is a piece of mouldy code that should be taken out behind and given the mercy stroke(?). It has goto's and everything

) Alternatively, you can try to disable the cache, but without debug output it's dang difficult to figure out what file it stores those cached registering in...

This entire manuever shouldn't affect your setting/mails/etc.
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regards, Esben
True trade is honest, but not merciful. Politics is dishonest, no matter how merciful... and war is neither honest nor merciful.... therefore, choose trade above politics, but politics above war.

mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

I'd completely unmerge it, move out the .mozilla directory and then remerge it.

If that still doesn't work then you have something messed up outside of mozilla that's causing the problem. In that case mozilla isn't likely the problem, it's just a symptom.

cyjoe · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 35

i have sort of the same problem:
Yesterday i emerged mozilla 1.3 (with a "hacked" 1.3 beta ebuild) and everything worked fine. After a reboot today mozilla keeps crashing when i try to type text into the URL field. It just freezes. Only a kill -9 can quit mozilla. I already tried deleting my old profiles but this did not fix it.
I think I will wait for the official mozilla 1.3 ebuild.

Toth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 133

Esben

You /could/ grap the sources from ftp.mozilla.org (be sure to get the 1.3 branch) and build them. If it doesn't work, at least it would be a debug build, so maybe you can see what's going on....
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regards, Esben
True trade is honest, but not merciful. Politics is dishonest, no matter how merciful... and war is neither honest nor merciful.... therefore, choose trade above politics, but politics above war.

BoredSpy · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 11 Location: San Jose, CA

Try running (as root): fc-cache -f

After emerge -u world updated my errr fontconfig or freetype can't remember I encountered the same after a reboot. The above might help (it resolved all my crash issues.) Running fc-cache without the -f(orce) option did *not* fix the problem. I also restarted my xfs and then my X session for good measure. Not sure if that's really necessary or not.