Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78813
Unable to run / startup Mozilla after installing Redhat 8
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:47 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; AT&T CSM6.0; H010818) Description of problem: Mozilla will not stay active when started from the desktop. It opens and then closes immediately. I can run it from the command line by entering httpview <url>, but it crashes after a short period of time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.see above 2. 3. Actual Results: The browser crashes. Expected Results: I expect the browser to stay open Additional info: I can't browse the internet. I can connect to an FTP site if you think I should download and reinstall the browser.
Component should not be "netscape" - it is deprecated from the Red Hat Linux 8.0 release. The component should be "mozilla". Please run "strace /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/mozilla-bin 2> /tmp/output_mozilla-bin.stderr" in a Gnome Terminal window. Please attach the resulting file, /tmp/output_mozilla-bin.stderr, to this bug report. Please provide "rpm -q mozilla" output.
The strace command created a zero byte file, although the output was visible in the terminal window. The browser also opened, I closed it so the strace command could resume. The output from "rpm -q mozilla" is: mozilla-1.0.1-24
blizzard, what's the status on this. I've been down for two weeks now.
I'm not sure. You should try to uninstall it and re-install it from scratch. I'm curious to see if after you uninstall it if there are any files left in /usr/lib/mozilla or /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/.
What are the command line commands for un-installing and re-installing the browswer?
You will have to use rpm to do it. Something like: rpm -qa | grep ^mozilla will tell you all the mozilla packages that you have installed. Then you can use: rpm -e mozilla-mail mozilla mozilla-nspr [...] to delete all of the packages.
I uninstalled mozilla, rebooted and found the directory mozilla-1.0.1 in /usr/lib. I manually removed the directory and reinstalled mozilla. After the reinstall I am still having the same problems. Mozilla shuts down immediately after starting. I can't browse the internet.
Closing *old* bug... reopen if still valid.