Hello, Yes I know I'm replying to my own post ...
As far as I can see, some upgrade of some gnome or GTK package has broken mozilla in the testing distribution. My evidence for this is that: Trying to run mozilla as a normal user makes /tmp fill up with empty /tmp/orbit-username-8digithex directories, that are ALL dated January 1st 1970. Does anyone know what package is responsible so that I can remove it??? I didn't think that unpriviledged processes could do this. Running mozilla as root makes a single /tmp/orbit-root directory which is correctly dated. This problem doesn't happen on my other Debian machine (testing distribution on powerpc, which has less gnome/GTK stuff on it. But I've never installed any such packages on the machine where mozilla is broken, except where packages I use have depended on them. Still grateful for any ideas about what has gone wrong ... Toby. On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:25:33PM +0000, Toby Johnson wrote: > Help! > > After doing an update and upgrade of Debian testing yesterday (4th Feb), > mozilla hangs on startup: Typing 'mozilla &' in a shell never returns. > Obviously it worked fine prior to this update; previous update was on > 14th Jan. The bizarre things about this problem are: > > 1/ neither mozilla nor any of the packages it depends on where upgraded > in the upgrade that broke it, and > > 2/ root can start mozilla fine but normal users cannot > > I've tried purging and reinstalling mozilla, and deleting .mozilla > directories, but that doesn't fix the problem. I've also checked my > loopback interface (wrt a previous post on this list) and it looks > fine:
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