75644 - application will not launch, there are no error messages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[Rocky Scaletta]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010326
BuildID:    20010411

Running "mozilla" from the command line will not start the application.  The
shell script produces output, sets environmental variables, etc., but it drops
back to the shell prompt before even opening a window.  There are no error
messages, not even a segfault.  This started showing up in nightly builds about
a week ago. (4/4/2001)
The same behavior occurs when starting the binary executables directly, as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get linux, download mozilla, unpack
2. type "./mozilla"
3. bingo. nothing happens

Actual Results:  After typing "mozilla," some text is output, but the program
stops and returns to prompt.

Expected Results:  expected application to start, browser window to open.

Running kernel 2.4.3, X 4.0.3, KDE 2.1.1 if that matters.  Mozilla worked fine
up until about a week ago.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

can you try ./mozilla -profilemanager and see if it lets you create a new
profile and use that?  

Comment 2

[Rocky Scaletta]

No.  ./mozilla -profilemanager produces the same behavior; the app won't start
at all.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

can you try deleting your .mozilla directory (this will destry any existing
profiles) or moving it and try starting mozilla again. Thnks

Comment 4

[Rocky Scaletta]

Removing ~/.mozilla has no effect, whether starting mozilla normally or with the
"-profilemanager" option.  A new .mozilla directory is created, containing only
the file "appreg," but nothing else happens.

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Reporter check the premissions on your .mozilla directory..make sure there set
to the user your trying to run Mozilla as. See if that fixes it.

Comment 6

[Rocky Scaletta]

The permissions on .mozilla are fine (0644).  The problem still occurs with the
april 11th builds.

However, I downloaded the latest one (2001041714) and it starts up fine.  Wicked
strange.

Comment 7

[Rocky Scaletta]

Check that, the permissions on the directory were 755.  "read, write and change
into" for the user running mozilla.

Comment 8

[timeless]

reporter: who owns mozilla-bin ?

Comment 9

[Rocky Scaletta]

mozilla-bin is owned by the same user who is attempting to run it.

Comment 10

[Keyser Sose]

Marking WORKSFORME as per reporters comments. Reopen when/if it reoccurs.