On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 18:38, M.Hockings wrote: > Mike Klinke wrote: > > >On Saturday 15 November 2003 15:42, M.Hockings wrote: > > > > > >>I must admit that I don't know at what stage mozilla has stopped as I > >>was doing a number of things with this one machine yesterday. > >>However now when I click on the mozilla startup icon at the bottom of > >>the screen it appears to begin to start but then just ends without > >>any messages displayed. Is there a way to determine why mozilla is > >>not starting, then I might have a hope about fixing it. > >> > >>Mike > >> > >> > > > >Open up a terminal window and type in "strace mozilla." > > > >This will start up mozilla and keep a running log in the terminal window > >of wha't going on. When mozilla crashes you may be able to determine > >the cause by going back and looking at the running log. > > > >Regards, Mike Klinke > > > > > > > That was actually quite informative. It looks like Mozilla is trying to > read on socket 4 and getting an error then it ends. This is after the > same socket id (4) had been opened, used and closed several times > previous. At this point though it has not been opened past it's last close. > > I have tried deleting the .mozilla directory but that makes no difference. > > I suspect that maybe a file is bad. How can I force a re-install of > Mozilla from the CD ? > > Mike Well you can check to see if it is a corrupted file. rpm -V $(rpm -qa |grep mozilla) Bret
