derxen Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted January 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ump Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 From a console typr ps -e look for any intenses os Mozilla find the first one then kill its ID type kill xxxx This has happened to me a couple of times and I have used this to fix the problem As far as why I don't know ump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted January 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ump Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 One more thought When Mozilla fails to start and you do a ps -e are you showing any Java VM prosses. I seem to remember that I had Mozilla fail to start and found several Java VM I killed them and Mozzilla started fine I hope this helps Of course I have slept since the last time this happened to me so please take all advice with a grain of salt. anyway good luck ump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 hi derxen I have the same problem ..... after some frustration, I've given up on mozilla. I know mozilla is great ...blah blah blah .... but the version from mozilla.org won't let me open more than one session from an icon, and the mandrake version keeps crashing. I've switch completely to phoenix (using the texstar version) and it been running sweet for a while now. I copied my $MOZILLA/plugins to $PHOENIX/plugins and everything works now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 hi derxenI have the same problem ..... after some frustration, I've given up on mozilla. I know mozilla is great ...blah blah blah .... but the version from mozilla.org won't let me open more than one session from an icon, and the mandrake version keeps crashing. I've switch completely to phoenix (using the texstar version) and it been running sweet for a while now. I copied my $MOZILLA/plugins to $PHOENIX/plugins and everything works now Paul, the mandrake version doesn't let you open a second session either it just uses a script that checks if moz is already running , and if it is it opens another window not a new instance of mozilla. the script is /usr/bin/mozilla if you replace all references to the 1.1 libs and executables with the 1.2 versions you can use the icons to open new windows. either that or copy the mozilla script and edit it and save it as something different like mozilla-1.2.1 and create a desktop icon pointing to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 hi derxenI have the same problem ..... after some frustration, I've given up on mozilla. I know mozilla is great ...blah blah blah .... but the version from mozilla.org won't let me open more than one session from an icon, and the mandrake version keeps crashing. I've switch completely to phoenix (using the texstar version) and it been running sweet for a while now. I copied my $MOZILLA/plugins to $PHOENIX/plugins and everything works now Paul, the mandrake version doesn't let you open a second session either it just uses a script that checks if moz is already running , and if it is it opens another window not a new instance of mozilla. the script is /usr/bin/mozilla if you replace all references to the 1.1 libs and executables with the 1.2 versions you can use the icons to open new windows. either that or copy the mozilla script and edit it and save it as something different like mozilla-1.2.1 and create a desktop icon pointing to it. sweet !!! thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 The main reason I use mozilla as a browser, and not phoenix or galeon, is that I use the mail client as well. Otherwise I'ld use galeon, and I've heard a lot of good things about phoenix as well. I installed moz1.2.1 in /usr/local last night, leaving the old moz1.1 in place, and it picked up my profile without problems and has been working well. Paul: why would you want more than one moz session anyway, instead of just multiple windows? Ump: no, there were no java processes either, ubless by chance there was a java program running at the same time. derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ump Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 derxen Well gave it a shot. Please let us know how it does. ump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippocampe Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 I had a similar problem once. All of a sudden, mozilla refused to start neither from command line nor from the menu. It isn't either in the processes list. I just deleted the .mozilla directory in my home folder, launched mozilla and it worked again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 Paul: why would you want more than one moz session anyway, instead of just multiple windows? I don't ... I want to be able to open new windows from an icon on my kicker (or desktop ... what ever I'm using at time) Paul, the mandrake version doesn't let you open a second session either it just uses a script that checks if moz is already running , and if it is it opens another window not a new instance of mozilla. the script is /usr/bin/mozilla if you replace all references to the 1.1 libs and executables with the 1.2 versions you can use the icons to open new windows. either that or copy the mozilla script and edit it and save it as something different like mozilla-1.2.1 and create a desktop icon pointing to it. is the perfect answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derxen Posted January 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2003 If anyone still wants to know: mozilla 1.2.1 does not have the regular crashes/failing to start that moz1.1 had. And I haven't come across other problems either. derxen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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