72004 - mozilla won't display

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41057

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[patrick]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686)
BuildID:    ?don't know build ID (happens in v0.8 and v0.7)

I can't get mozilla to display.  I'm running on RedHat 7.0.  It does not appear
to crash...it just never starts up.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
When I try to start mozilla, here's what happens:

[pperalta@odyssey mozilla]$ ./mozilla
./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/opt/mozilla/0.8/mozilla
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mozilla/0.8/mozilla
     LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mozilla/0.8/mozilla:/opt/mozilla/0.8/mozilla/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/opt/mozilla/0.8/mozilla
          LIBPATH=/opt/mozilla/0.8/mozilla
       ADDON_PATH=/opt/mozilla/0.8/mozilla
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=


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...and after that, nothing at all.  I've tried running it the following ways:

./mozilla --display=$DISPLAY
./mozilla --display=0
./mozilla --display=:0

and they all produce the same result.

Actual Results:  Nothing.  No errors, and no browser appears.

Expected Results:  It should have started.

I've tried it with WindowMaker and Gnome/sawfish (both are stock versions with
RedHat 7.0)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reporter, did you install as root?  and are you running as a regular user?  if
so, did you run once as root or run regchrome and regxpcom by hand?

Comment 2

[patrick]

-Reporter, did you install as root?

Yes.

-and are you running as a regular user?

Yes.

-if so, did you run once as root or run regchrome and regxpcom by hand?

No...I don't know what those do.

However, I tried running mozilla as root and it came up!  After that I logged 
out of the root shell and tried it under my normal account and it came up after 
that too.  So...I guess it's running OK now!

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Mozilla should not need write access to the binary directory"

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

Comment 4

[timeless]

vrfy