Mozilla went blank and in German
 

I just put up an RH9 mail and network services server for our company. It runs fine and has for serveral days, but Mozilla is misbehaving. For whatever you are accessing (web, docs, etc) it opens a window with a German header and the window remains blank. Any suggestions?

Regards,
RHW

If you think it would help to know what the German header said, quote it here and I can translate it for you.

Robin

quick question: what should you need to use mozilla for on a company's mail & network server? Can't you just control the server remotely, and use your workstation's mozilla?

It says Wilkommen bei Redhat, which means Welcome to Redhat. I speak German. It says that in the header of Mozilla window. It also displays no menu, no web page, no documentation screens, just a blank window with a Willkommen....

As to why I would want it to work....I want everything to work <grin> I happened to be at the server and since I am relatively new to Linux, I was trying to bring up a documentation screen which is on the menu system. Also, I find it convenient to cruise by the HP website from time to time and download their PSP's (product support packs). I know, I could get that via FTP, but I have too many other things to do right now to spend time learning all the text based stuff when the HTML stuff is so easily navigated.

I know, I know, I'm a newbie and probably a hundred other things you could call me, but like I said when I started out...I ljust want it to work.

Thanks for your replies and for any help you can lend.

Regards,
RHW

Is Mozilla set up in full-screen mode? Try hitting F11, I think it is, and see if the menus come back.

I have just tried to make as much of Mozilla's menus invisible as possible, without hitting F11 (which also makes the header disappear); the furthest I get, there's a little triangle in the topmost left corner, and if I click that the main menu folds out; from 'view' (Ansicht) you should then be able to make all the other bars visible.

If the triangle is missing, maybe your Mozilla crashes during its initialization. The header seems to suggest that it tries to open a RedHat page as startup page. Have you got any other browser to check this with, for instance Konqueror or Opera? Furthermore, have you installed Galeon or Epiphany? These are front ends using the underlying Mozilla engine, it would be interesting to see whether they behave the same.

Robin

Thanks (und viel Danke) for the suggestions. I will try them out on the server on Monday. The distribution includes Navigator I think or I can download one of the others. I was just baffled because I can't remember anything I might have done to mess it up.

Regards,
RHW

Okay, well, case closed... I uninstalled Mozilla 1.2, downloaded 1.6 from the Mozilla website, and installed it. All is now fixed. The only issue is that the "default HTML viewer" became w3m a text based browser. I flipped over to "Preferences" and fixed it.

Thanks for the help and observations.


Regards,
RHW