56724 - M18 cannot start under Linux redhat 6.2

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001010
BuildID:    2000080712

M18 cannot start under Linux redhat 6.2
Neither can Netscape PR3,

M17 did not have this problem.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Start mozilla with
<path>/mozilla


Actual Results:  /usr/local/installed/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh
/usr/local/installed/mozilla/mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/installed/mozilla
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/installed/mozilla

LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/installed/mozilla:/usr/local/installed/mozilla/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/installed/mozilla
          LIBPATH=/usr/local/installed/mozilla
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/installed/mozilla
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/local/installed/mozilla/mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=


Oh no!  /usr/local/installed/mozilla/mozilla-bin just dumped a core file.

Do you want to debug this ? You need a lot of memory for this, so watch out ?


Expected Results:

Comment 1

[David Krause]

Mozilla can not be started like this.  You have to cd into the directory and
then run the file.  Also your not supposed to use the run-mozilla.sh script.

cd /usr/local/installed/mozilla/
./mozilla

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Might be worth adding that it must also be run as root once, if it is installed
in a dir where only root normally have write access.
But adding the install directory to users PATH, and one later can start mozilla
with simply "mozilla" as any user. No problems here. (RH6.2)

Comment 3

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

Running mozilla once as root seemed to do the trick.

I forwarded the information to news where other people have had the same 
problem.

The problem probably occured because the software is installed system-wide (2 
users ;-) and hence the invoking user can't update the install location.

Thanks for you help!

Comment 4

[timeless]

reporter didn't follow procedure; following procedure worked.

Comment 5

[timeless]

vrfy; invalid/worksforme it doesn't really matter

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

I have also been unable to run M18.  Symptoms are different; run it and it 
hangs somewhere before Mozilla itself does much.  Nothing appears on the 
screen.  (No crash, so no core file.)  M17 worked fine.  Running the program 
from the proper directory and using the script does not work, nor does running 
as root or making the install directory world readable.  If I get rid of my 
~/.mozilla directory it recreates it and announces that it's setting it up, but 
still hangs after that's done.

My system is Red Hat 6, XFree86 3.3.5, fvwm2 and no Gnome or KDE, on a K6-2 
with 64M memory.

Comment 7

[timeless]

[e-mail]:
you picked the wrong bug.
Please file your own so we can handle it individually. Also you'll need to 
supply much more info than you did.  Please visit irc.mozilla.org #mozilla or 
#mozillazine and ask for help diagnosing your problem. Be very explicit.  Also 
mention that timeless told you to go there.