91870 - Browser does not come up

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Keith Hankin]

I install the latest nightly build 20010722 as root.  It comes up as root, but
when I try to bring it up as a regular user, it immediately exits after the
following output:

[keith@keith-linux ~]$ /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla&
[1] 12209
[keith@keith-linux ~]$ /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla
 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla:/usr/local/mozilla/plugins:/zambeel/xerces/lib:/zambeel/insure/lib.linux2
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla:/usr/local/mozilla/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla
          LIBPATH=/usr/local/mozilla
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=

[1]    Exit 139                      /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla

One hint to the possible cause of the problem is that I did not have the problem
before when I was using regular GNOME (Linux 6.2 kernel 2.2.16).  But the
problem now occurs since I installed Helix Gnome (just downloaded two days ago).
I am using the sawfish window manager.

Comment 1

[Keith Hankin]

Oops, I forgot to mention that I did try first bringing it up as root and
bringing up mail, address book and composer windows, as I've heard that
sometimes fixes the problem, but it still doesn't work.

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Were you successful in bringing up Mozilla as root?  If so, I think this might
be a duplicate of Bug 42184.  The release notes mention this:

If you are installing Mozilla on a multi-user operating system such as Linux,
Unix, or Windows 2000, you should install it separately in the user directory of
each user who plans to use Mozilla. (Bug 42184) If you install Mozilla in a
shared write-protected directory, it may not run properly. (Bugs 42184)

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Marking WORKSFORME due to lack of response.