[CLUE-Tech] Ximian busted my browser...

[Jeremiah Stanley]

Just to proffer a solution. RedHat and Ximian cannot agree on what rpm's 
that will work together. In fact Ximian puts browsers in an entirely 
different tree than ol RH. So, the solution to this problem is to 
uninstall all RPM's that have anything to do with mozilla or galeon. Now, 
pick which ones you want to use (you'll notice that there are two versions 
of mozilla that get installed and two versions of galeon), either the RH 
RPM's or the Ximian RPM's. I personally suggest the Ximian ones b/c in my 
experience they are more stable than the earlier RH versions. You may need 
to do some violent rm'ing to get all traces of galeon and mozilla out of 
there. 

This problem is specific to RH7.x

JStanley

> I did 'rm -rf ~/.mozilla' and as root 'rm -rf /tmp/*' and 'rm -rf
> /tmp/.*' and restarted.  That, I would hope, would clear any cached
> stuph.
> 
> I have tried launching from a gnome-terminal, from an xterm, and from
> tty1.
> 
> Still nothing.  No window.  No feedback.  Any other ideas?
> 
> David
> 
> On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 12:43, Grant Johnson wrote:
> > Occasionally, Netscape/Mozilla will get a nasty file in the cache that 
> > will spaz things.  Usually it is a corrupted GIF.  Delete everything 
> > under cache (make sure that it is not running first) and then try it. 
> >  On the older versions, there are a bunch of subdirectories with 2 
> > character names, but on the newer stuff, there is just one big directory 
> > again.  Check in .netscape, .mozilla, etc.  I have to use Netscape 6.2 
> > for getting to my work email because of some added stuff for RSA token 
> > based security, but my cache is still in 
> > ~/.mozilla/default/hphmd4lc.slt/Cache so it still shows the Mozilla 
> > engine is behind it.
> > 
> > If you are a big chicken, you can make a directory called oldcache or 
> > something, and just move all of the files there.
> > 
> > David Willson wrote:
> > 
> > >OK,I tried a lot of things, the only things that responded visibly were
> > >'mozilla -mail' and 'mozilla -ProfileManager'.  Both of those commands
> > >seem to do what they're supposed to, but if I try to CTRL+1 or
> > >Tasks>Navigator from Mail, it quietly closes.  Nothing sends any
> > >messages at all to the console, except 'mozilla -help', which gives what
> > >you would expect.
> > >
> > >So, I have a broken browser that doesn't complain.
> > >
> > >On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 10:35, Grant Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > >>Start Mozilla from an xterm, lots of good debug messages will pop out, 
> > >>even if it doean't make it all of the way to a good start.
> > >>
> > >>David Willson wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Here's a strange thing.  Ever since I loaded Ximian Desktop, in order to
> > >>>get Ximian Evolution (which, as I have previously mentioned, absolutely
> > >>>RULES), I can't get a browse.  Neither Mozilla nor Galeon will start
> > >>>implicitly (from a link in an email or whatever), or explicitly (from
> > >>>their launch icons or called at the command line).
> > >>>
> > >>>What I get is a lot of disk activity the first time I try it, then
> > >>>nothing, and on subsequent attempts in the same uptime, just a quick
> > >>>flicker of disk activity, and nothing.
> > >>>
> > >>>I have tried removing and re-installing the mozilla package, and
> > >>>removing my mozilla and galeon preferences (~/.mozilla and ~/.galeon)
> > >>>
> > >>>Any other ideas before I FFR (fdisk, format, reinstall, one call does it
> > >>>all) this box?
> > >>>
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