[25533] in Athena Bugs
Re: Can't Use Mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Mar 1 16:01:10 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:00:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
To: Isaac J Tetzloff <isaact@mit.edu>
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Isaac J Tetzloff wrote:
> I am trying to use Mozilla on athena, but whenever I try to open it I
> get the mozilla profile locked box, buton top of that i have an error
> that says application "gdialog" (process 27339) has crassed due to a
> fatal error. This happens on any athena computer in several different
> clusters I have tried. Do you know how I can fix this?
I have seen a couple users come into the SIPB office with this
problem. There was a known problem with people using the Crux
gtk theme what was supposed to be fixed in Athena's 9.2.27
release. However, it seems you are still having problems.
The only solution which I am sure fixes the problem is a severe
one - delete all your gnome customizations. After you do that,
and log out and back in, the gdialog process will work properly,
and you will be able to start the web browser.
If you have gnome customizations that you would prefer to save,
you can solve the problem temporarily by removing your mozilla
lock file each time you see the error message:
delete ~/.mozilla/*/*.slt/lock
That will fix it once, but it could happen again, and you would
need to delete the lockfile if you get the error again.
The permanent fix of deleting your gnome customizations is more
severe, but you won't have to worry about deleting your lock file
each time the error happens. To do it, you could:
mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf_bak
mv ~/.gnome2 ~/.gnome2_bak
mv ~/.gnome2_private ~/.gnome2_private_bak
logout
This will erase your gnome customizations, and will have the side
effect of fixing the problem with gdialog so that it does not
happen again.
I wish I knew what was really going on, but maybe this will help
you get the web browser working.
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Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
MIT SIPB
