[20950] in Athena Bugs
Re: mozilla: second window always blank
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Oct 22 14:14:40 2002
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:14:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
cc: <bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU>, <nisha@MIT.EDU>
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I got the files, so Nisha, you can remove the pickup.mozilla dir.
However, inspecting them doesn't show me anything obviously wrong. You
don't have a mimeTypes.rdf file, but there are several reasons that could
be the case, and none of them would affect this behavior. I don't see any
settings in your preferences that are out of kilter, and none of the
human-readable files (which is almost everything in there) look corrupt.
And of course I can't try a test run using your profile; there are too
many settings in there which are dependent on you being you. Mozilla would
crash and burn :)
There IS a way to test for sure if it's the profile, but it's a bit of
work. You decide whether you want to proceed. What you have to do is move
your Mozilla profiles AND your Netscape profiles someplace where Mozilla
can't find them, and let Mozilla make a "bare bones" profile from scratch.
Make sure you are not running any copies of Mozilla or Netscape while
you do this!
(from your home dir)
mkdir old.profiles
mv .mozilla old.profiles
mv .netscape old.profiles
Now run Mozilla. Then, with Mozilla running, try to run a second instance.
If this window still shows the problem, then it is something else in your
environment. If it doesn't, it's your previous Mozilla profile that was
garbled in a way I can't detect.
P.S. Don't forget to exit all Mozillas before saying
mv old.profiles/.mozilla .
mv old.profiles/.netscape .
rmdir old.profiles
to get your settings back.
