On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:43:40PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A.L.Meyers wrote: > > > >>Hi! Trying to start Mozilla recently does nothing. ps -A tells me that > >>a task called mozilla-bin is running but the browser does not come up. > >>Same systems runs konqueror and netscape perfectly. Galeon, however, > >>will not start up either. Advice appreciated. > >> > > Try killing all instances of mozilla, then rename your ~/.mozilla > > directory to move it out of the way, and then start moz. If it starts, > > you can move your bookmarks, etc back over and hopefully recover from > > there. > > > > You might even want to restart X; it seems to me that sometimes Moz and > > friends somehow get hosed over time (memory leaks?), and a restart of X > > fixes it (reminds me of Windows - yuck, but at least you don't have to > > restart the box, just X). > > Unfortunately these do not work. One further information is that not > only mozilla-bin but another process called "gconfd-2" is left hanging > and must be killed. > Are you running testing or unstable? It seems like you have a new version of Gnome and an old Mozilla, and Galeon which is not in testing. You might get Galeon and Mozilla to work by killing gconfd-2, if it is running, then starting gconfd-1, and then the browser. Better yet, apt-get the current versions of mozilla and mozilla-firebird.
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