Re: Iceweasel not starting

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

elijah rutschman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> > Try this:
> >
> > define a new user, any user:
> >
> > adduser mickey
> >
> > then logon to X as that user that you just added.
> >
> > Then try iceweasel again, logged on as that user.
>
> That worked!  If you were thinking it was my profile, you were right.
> I deleted the ~/.mozilla folder for the original user and was able to
> succefully start iceweasel.  I think the initial profile creation may
> have been interrupted.
>
> Before that, I had tried running "mozilla" to no avail, and top wasn't
> showing any xul-runner instances.  I appreciate the suggestions.

It just so happened that I got this "iceweasel does nothing" thing a 
couple of days ago with 2 or my users. It turned out to be permissions: 
iceweasel does nothing if the permissions are not right in the home dir.
You can set them right with:

chown -hR <userid>:<usergroup> /home/<user dir>/

Hugo