80831 - mozilla 0.9 freezes on startup on linux

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[jks]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15 i686)
BuildID:    ???

[jks@d1 /usr/local/mozilla] ./mozilla
./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9:/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9/plugins:/usr/local/pgsql/lib
    
LIBRARY_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9:/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
          LIBPATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
       ADDON_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
<freezes here, no window pops up, prompt doesn't return.>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Cd to the mozilla directory and run ./mozilla
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Nothing.

Expected Results:  A mozilla window should pop up.

I have run Mozilla 0.8.1 on this system.  I tried to search for this bug using
netscape but I didn't find it before netscape crashed on me.  This is a redhat
6.x system.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Did you install the Flash plugin before starting Mozilla?  If so, is your sound
device busy when mozilla hangs?

Also, did you install on top of 0.8.1 or did you do a clean install?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comments from reporter:

Sorry for not replying via bugzilla.

As a matter of fact I did copy the flash plugin from my 0.8.1 install to
where I installed mozilla 0.9 but I took it out when mozilla wouldn't
start and mozilla still didn't start.  I didn't copy over 0.8.1 and 0.8.1
still starts.  My sound device was not busy (afaik).

Comment 3

[jorge o. castro]

jks,

have you tried deleting your ~/.mozilla directory? Sometimes a new version won't
install with cruft from an older version in that directory. You will lose your
bookmarks, etc. though.

Comment 4

[jks]

OK I moved my .mozilla directory and now instead of just freezing I get a
command prompt back:
[jks@d1 /local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9] ./mozilla
./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9:/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9/plugins:/usr/local/pgsql/lib
    
LIBRARY_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9:/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
          LIBPATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
       ADDON_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
[jks@d1 /local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9] 

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Worksforme with  061208 mozilla linux build on RedHat 6.2

Comment 6

[jks]

I just tried mozilla 0.9.1.  I removed my .mozilla directory

[jks@d1 /local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1] ./mozilla
./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1
 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1:/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1/plugins:/usr/local/pgsql/lib
    
LIBRARY_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1:/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1
          LIBPATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1
       ADDON_PATH=/local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
[jks@d1 /local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1] 


I got a prompt back, but mozilla didn't work.

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

R.K.Aa do you have any ideas here?

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

Reporter: Does it start when you start it as root?
If it does: While you have it running as root, start all installed components
once as well (mailnews, composer). No need to created mail-accounts.
Then quit mozilla and try start it as a regular user.

If starting it as root doesn't work: Does it start for user root if you remove
the flash plugin first?

Comment 9

[jks]

That did it. I started it as root then I could start it as my regular user
account.  But there appears to be no flash plugin distributed with mozilla.

Comment 10

[R.K.Aa.]

Good you got it going :)

There is no flash distributed along with mozilla, but if you have it installed
from before in nc4.7* you just copy the bits you need (as root) with for instance

cp /usr/local/netscape/plugins/*lash* /local/move/usr/local/mozilla0.9.1/plugins

Otherwise download from macromedia's flash site and install according to
instructions.

Resolving as "works for me" per reporters comment.

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

ahh.. and the reason i asked about flash was a known bug where moz won't start
if /dev/dsp is busy and flash *is* installed. (Like if you have xmms running
while starting moz etc.)

Comment 12

[jks]

I'm not sure this should be marked as resolved.  Should you be able to run this
as a user right after root untars the installation?  Or if not should you at
least get a message 'this must be run once as root' ?

Comment 13

[R.K.Aa.]

There should be a release note about this.
For additional information see bug 42184, bug 49345, bug 45863.

Comment 14

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Should you be able to run this as a user right after root untars the
> installation?

No.  Please read the release notes (I'd say which section, but I can't access
www.mozilla.org at the moment).  Simply untarring does not install the product
properly.

Comment 15

[timeless]

something like ./mozilla ./regxpcom && ./mozilla ./regchrome should work w/o 
requiring you to be root, some day the relnotes will have good instructions for 
doing this.

Comment 16

[jks]

I just looked at my mozilla 0.9.1 directory and apparently the release notes
aren't in the tarball.

Comment 17

[R.K.Aa.]

The Release Notes are linked to under the "Help" item on menubar.
The need for a README file is, amongst others, covered in bug bug 45863.

Comment 18

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah.. The only notes are on the web.  From
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.1/#install, in the Linux section:

  You must run Mozilla at least once to complete autoregistration and for the
  component.reg file to be written to the installation directory. If a different 
  user (other than the person who installed the product) runs the program first, 
  a core dump will occur. (Bug 49345)

Yes, that's a weird requirement for a Linux software package.  The RPM and .deb
distributions avoid this requirement by starting out with things autoregistered,
I believe (they may do the registration as part of post-inst).