Mozilla won't start

jspaceman · 03-23-2004, 10:03 AM

For some reason Mozilla won't start in Slackware 9.1 using KDE 3.2. It was running fine before, but now when I click on the Mozilla icon on my desktop a Mozilla tab appears in my taskbar, with the hour glass icon as if it was loading up; but it never loads.

I had this happen to me before in Mandrake and I can't remember how I fixed it. Something to do with a 'lock file' or something, with the pid number listed in it. Can't remember all the details.

Can someone help?

muah · 03-23-2004, 10:10 AM

Try to run it from console, u will most likely get an error message in console stating what is wrong.

jspaceman · 03-23-2004, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by muah
Try to run it from console, u will most likely get an error message in console stating what is wrong.

I tried that, but I don't get any error messages or any messages for that matter.

mrcheeks · 03-23-2004, 12:28 PM

try running it in the console with parameters
mozilla http://linuxquestions.org

kobs · 03-23-2004, 01:03 PM

check /var/log/packages

thegreatgatsby · 03-23-2004, 01:27 PM

this sometimes happens to me and I don't know why
but would work again if I deleted my profiles and started again.

jspaceman · 03-24-2004, 04:26 AM

I checked /var/log/packages and mozilla 1.6 is listed in there. I tried running mozilla from the console but it doesn't give me any error messages. When I do a 'ps aux' it lists:

Code:

snozzy   18364  0.2  0.1  2068 1028 pts/4    S    05:25   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
snozzy   18370 41.0  3.5 45832 23104 pts/4   S    05:25   0:02 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin

even though no Mozilla window opens up on my screen.

jsokko · 03-24-2004, 10:16 AM

this happens to me sometimes on RH9. Have you tried killing the pid and restarting in CLI?

That usually makes it work for me.

J