[20804] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mozilla on Athena problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 25 14:32:25 2002
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:32:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
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Actually, the "enter password and then it agitates with nothing happening"
on a mail check is usually a sign of misconfiguration. Try going to my
document on mail settings under Mozilla and comparing to the detail
settings I give there to see if everything is where it should be. Or if
you prefer I can come have a look at it myself; you qualify for the
house-calls plan :)
I have forgotten what I called the mail settings page but it is linked at
http://web.mit.edu/tbelton/www/mozilla
The later restart problem is disturbing but sounds like a stray process
that Close Forcibly didn't catch. It doesn't like to be interrupted when
it gets locked in a mail-check loop. I bet logging out and back in would
handle that. Give it a try.
-Todd
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jean Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the right place to send this but here is what
> happened to me when I tried out Mozilla. FYI, I depend on Netscape
> messenger for reading my email and have for the past two years or so.
>
> When I started up mozilla and tried to open the email reader I entered
> my password and then it just spun as if it was trying to download my
> email but never finished. I did not get an error message. After about
> 10 minutes I tried to shut it down but it wasn't responding at all so I
> used the xwin controls in the upper left and chose "close forcibly".
> I've had to do this in the past with Netscape and it does leave behind
> the lock file but I could always get past that. Now when I try to
> restart Mozilla (from the AIU icon) I get the error:
>
> xalf: Failed to launch www
> child exited: status 2
>
> This doesn't look promising.
>
> -jean-
>
