55169 - Mozilla doesn't start anymore

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41057

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Arjan van de Ven]

The latest nightly build doesn't start up anymore; that is: no window appears.
strace of the startup is/will be attached.
Tested on a K6-2 with Debian Woody+Helix and PentiumIII with Debian Potato+Helix
both under kernels 2.2.18pre15 and 2.4.0-test7

Comment 1

[Arjan van de Ven]

Attachment: strace of 2000-10-03-21-M18

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

did you try with a new profile?

Comment 3

[Arjan van de Ven]

Yes. Doing a "rm -rf ~/.mozilla" only differs in that it now creates a new
profile directory.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

what nightly are you using exactly?

Comment 5

[lchiang]

This sounds like http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55183 which Asa 
said was working.

Comment 6

[Arjan van de Ven]

It is build 2000-10-03-21-M18

Comment 7

[Arjan van de Ven]

repeated with 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2000-10-04-21-M18/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
same result. No windows

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Arjan van de Ven have you deleted any old builds?  have you wiped out .mozilla dir?

Comment 9

[Arjan van de Ven]

yes to both, unless a previous Mozilla put files in a _very_ strange place.

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Arjan van de Ven, have you tried running it once as root?

Comment 11

[Arjan van de Ven]

I just tried this. Running it as root helps, in that now the mozilla window
appears. However, running it as a normal user again later doesn't work still.

Comment 12

[Arjan van de Ven]

This seems to be a permission problem, because mozilla works when I change the
ownership of all (mozilla)files to my regular user. Marking them "world
readable" + "world executable" was not enough though.

Comment 13

[Steven Borrelli]

I've been able to reproduce this behavior on Linux. It seems to work on a fresh
build:

To reproduce:
rm -rf package
rm -rf /root/.mozilla
tar zxf mozilla-blah.tar.gz

If you try to run mozilla as a regular user, the program won't start. If you
start mozilla as root, the new profile manager dialog will come up and
/root/.mozilla will be created.

Now any user can run mozilla. If you delete /root/.mozilla, any user can still
run mozilla as long as you don't blow away the package directory again. This
makes me think a mozilla file is being written to.

I've attached a diff file from ls -lR commands used before and after running
mozilla as root. It looks like the component.reg file is updated, among other
things.

[steve@demon package]$ diff /tmp/out.1 /tmp/out.2
4,5c4,5
< drwxrwxr-x   11 8482     wheel        4096 Oct 19 10:23 chrome
< -rw-rw-r--    1 8482     wheel      366000 Oct 19 10:23 component.reg
---
> drwxrwxr-x   12 8482     wheel        4096 Oct 19 17:24 chrome
> -rw-rw-r--    1 8482     wheel      366044 Oct 19 17:24 component.reg
50c50,53
< total 2492
---
> total 2528
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         3714 Oct 19 17:24 all-locales.rdf
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         4657 Oct 19 17:24 all-packages.rdf
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11124 Oct 19 17:24 all-skins.rdf
67a71
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 overlayinfo
69a74,75
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          923 Oct 19 17:25 user-locales.rdf
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          623 Oct 19 17:25 user-skins.rdf
3195a3202,3240
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo:
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 communicator
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 editor
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 messenger
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 navigator
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/communicator:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 content
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content:
> total 4
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         1394 Oct 19 17:24 overlays.rdf
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/editor:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 content
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/editor/content:
> total 4
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          242 Oct 19 17:24 overlays.rdf
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/messenger:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 content
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/messenger/content:
> total 4
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          910 Oct 19 17:24 overlays.rdf
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/navigator:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 19 17:24 content
>
> ./chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content:
> total 4
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          258 Oct 19 17:24 overlays.rdf

Comment 14

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

this a dupe of bug 41057

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41057 ***