derxen

When my mozilla fails to start up, ps -e shows no mozilla processes.

I had a look on alt.os.linux.mandrake and someone advised deleting either the XUL.mfas file, the chrome.rdf file, or both. But no one knew what the cause of it is. Meanwhile, I've downloaded mozilla1.2.1, hoping and assuming the bug has been fixed in that version.

derxen

Sorry, forgot to give some info: I use mdk 9.0, with the mozilla1.1 that comes with it. I have 128 mb ram.

derxen

Mozilla crashes, on a regular basis. It works fine for a couple of days, then all of a sudden just fails to start. Startng from the command line gives nothing, just a return of the prompt. There are no messages in x-session errors or the syslog. All I can do is remove the whole profile, or just the appreg file, in which case a new profile is made at the next startup.

Has anyone else experienced these crashes? They seem to come regularly, so there might be some cycle or build-up involved.

Also, does anyone know a good and easy way of backing up stuff like mail, passweords and so on? Mail is easy to put back, but I have no idea how to back up the passwords.

thanks in advance

derxen

Well, the problem has been 'solved', but in the worst possible way. After I had tried to mount mdk cd1, as had been advised to check whether the hardware was functional, the next time I started up the machine it crashed again, the same way it had before, but worse. This time X wouldn't start at all. The logs were totally unhelpful, at least I couldn't see what had happened, and I had no idea how to solve this, so I did a reinstall.... So now I'm busy redoing all my tweaks, but at least the cdrom mounts.

I guess we'll never know how this all happened, but I thank you all for the help you gave. As I said, at least I learnt a lot about devices and mounting. Thanks again, I really appreciated it.

derxen

Thanks for the explanation aru, it makes sense to me now. My fstab has an entry for hdb, but not for the new /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd file. When I tried to mount that, I was told it's not a valid block device. But, as i mentioned before, the lun0 folder is empty, it does not contain a file.

So should I make an empty file it in named cd (with the touch command)? And then a symlink from /dev/hdb to that file? And would it then be a valid block device? I'm starting to see the light, but still mostly guessing.

derxen

I tried that, and it works perfectly.

derxen

Also: there is no /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd, the lun0 folder is empty.

derxen

Right, back behind the machine. So I tried to mount a data cd with

% mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom, and I get 'special device /dev/ide/host0/etcetera does not exist'. When I do

% mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0 /mnt/cdrom, I get '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0 is not a valid block device'.

derxen

If you don't have an audio cable, and many people, including me, don't, then install cdread. It's in the mandrake contribs. Next, configure your player to use cdread.

derxen

No, I don't dual-boot anymore. I'll try mounting /mnt/cdrom on /dev/ide/etcetera in two days, when I'm back behind my computer again.

I really appreciate your help. Also, I'm learning a lot about devices in Linux. Question: why this set-up with the sym-links, why not just one /dev/file to mount the cdrom on?

derxen

Keep following it back. Where does /dev/hdb point? From your prior post it should be pointing to /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd.

Sorry, my mistake: /dev/hdb is an empty folder, not file. There is no file /dev/hdb.

How do I find the file that points to /dev/ide/host0/etcetera?

derxen

mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom gives 'mount: /dev/hdb is not a block device'.

There is no link in /dev named cdrom, but there is an empty file /dev/hdb.

derxen

There is no /dev/cdroms. There is a /dev/hdb, but when i try to mount /mnt/cdroms, I get '/dev/hdb is not a block device'.

derxen

I'm using mdk 9.0.

(Sorry about the delay, got modem trouble. alcatel speedtouch 330, I will say no more. Seems to work now though.)

derxen

Here it is:

/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

derxen

After MCC crashed for some reason (don't know why), I can't mount my cd-rom anymore. % mount /mnt/cdrom gives 'special device /dev/hdb does not exist'. When I do hardware detection, it says the new device file is ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd.

Can anyone tell me how to get hdb back?

Many thanks in advance!

derxen