Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> 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.
Lux
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