Mozilla v1.6 froze on rh9, I rebooted, and now Mozilla loads to "Select Profile"

[Lan Barnes]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:04:39AM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info, Carl.  I'm sure it will help me in the future.
> 
> But in this case, the subject line says it.  Mozilla froze.  I did not 
> have the time to deal with it.  I had to leave right then.  But I did 
> not want to leave X up with my login.  Once it goes to screen saver, my 
> brother would have no way of getting to his login without a power cycle. 
>  So I logged out, back to the X login screen.  Later, when I went back 
> in and tried to start Mozilla, I got that problem.  So I borrowed my 
> brother's login (since his Mozilla was unaffected), surfed to my ISP's 
> web site, accessed my web mail functions long enough to send a mail and 
> await the reply.
> 
> Thanks again, Carl.
> 

This may pertain, if not, forgive me. There was an abrupt exit from Moz
on my wife's machine (RH 9) -- the 2-yr-old may have cycled the power, I
don't remember. After a prayer of thanks for journaling file systems, we
found the same behavior on her Moz.

I get vague here ... I'm older, you know. IIRC Moz claimed that one of
its lib files was opened already. I ran lsof (man lsof for more) to find
out which one, and then used 'touch' to clear it (why that worked, I
have no idea ... rebooting didn't). Then Moz gave me a short list of
possible profiles when it loaded, and selecting the default got her back
running.

HTH,

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Lan Barnes                    lan at falleagle.net
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