78347 - Mozilla suddenly refuses to start

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 53952

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[patrick]

While the nightly build 2001043004 used to run fine the whole day on my NT box 
(just used it to report some other bugs) it suddenly doesn't start at all 
anymore. When I double click the desktop icon, I get an entry 'mozilla' in the 
NT taskmanager which is allocated about 1M of memory, but the splash screen or 
the browser never comes up and I have to kill the process with the taskmanager.

I've been starting and stopping Mozilla about a dozen times before without any 
problems. The last run and the restart were not more than five minutes apart and 
I didn't do anything special to my machine in the meantime, didn't start any 
other programs, etc...

For me this now is very reproducable since I can't start Mozilla at all anymore.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

worksforme with 10min old build on win2k.

Reporter: Have you tried to create a new profile ?
(run mozilla -profilemanager)

Comment 2

[patrick]

can't create a new profile since even "mozilla -profilemanager" doesn't start 
up. same effect.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

reporter, what other applications are you running?  See bug 53952

Comment 4

[patrick]

I had an instance of Real Jukebox sitting around. Suddenly, Realplayer had 
starting problems as well. Killed the whole lot et voila, Mozilla is back 
working. So it all looks like a dupe of bug 53952 to me, thanks for pointing it 
out.

Comment 5

[patrick]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53952 ***