my gnome panel crashed and cannot open mozilla

sibu_rajappan · 05-28-2004, 11:35 PM

pls some one help me to repair my gnome crash .i tried the init 0 inside the GUI and the next time i logged into gnome i got an error as the panel applet failed and the gnome panel crashed...i tried rebooting the system and no use............................pplllsssssssssssssss help........anyone.

chii-chan · 05-29-2004, 12:39 AM

1st ctrl-alt-F2. You'll be in terminal. Login then cd to your home directory. Remove the following directory:

rm -rf .gnome* .gconf* .metacity .nautilus

Then go back to gui by ctrl-alt-F7 then ctrl-alt-backspace to restart gui. It will reset everything (gnome) to default setting.

*I assume that your runlevel in inittab is 5.

sibu_rajappan · 05-29-2004, 02:11 AM

thanku chii chan that was good

sibu_rajappan · 05-29-2004, 02:18 AM

hey chii chan do u know the reason of having prob with mozilla see mine always have probs liking closes all opened mozilla windows in the middle of something........frustrating...........when its in the middle of writing a huge email..............pls help me

chii-chan · 05-29-2004, 07:42 AM

I would rather say to upgrade to a latest version of mozilla. Or use other program like sylpheed for writing e-mail. But mozilla crash really a big problem.

motub · 05-29-2004, 08:00 AM

Yes... you don't say what distribution you're using, but most of them install a much-older-than-current version of Mozilla, and many of the older versions were heavily subject to random crashing.

An upgrade is probably in order.

Baldrick65 · 05-29-2004, 08:26 AM

sibu_rajappan,

Just my

, but I use Firefox for web browsing and Thunderbird for email. They are both lean and mean.

Thunderbird has excellent spam control filters and both allow extensions to be installed for customizing the look, feel and behaviour.

It's well worth a look.

Baldrick

sibu_rajappan · 05-31-2004, 01:12 AM

thanku baldrick65 thanks very much.............

and any can u help me with my samba..........sometimes it works really fine but at times i will have to restart it if i want it to be visible in other win and linux machines.i am using RH9 in my lan.........this is causing me probs.......at timesw i will have to restart my system to get samba online.restarting the service also is not helping me out........

pls i need some assistance

chii-chan · 06-02-2004, 09:07 AM

edited: sorry wrong thread.