Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

[John Carline]

Brad Sawatzky wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote:
 

Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many 
websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the 
web. The strange part about it is that it only happens to regular users, 
it does not crash when running under root.
   

[ . . . ]
 

So far I've:
Waited patiently for Sid to quit breaking my toys - upgrading daily - no 
luck
   

Well sid == "unstable", but I sympathize.
 

Actually sid has been surprisingly stable, most problems disappear the 
next time I upgrade. :)

[ . . . ]
 

Since I haven't seen a hue and cry on the list, it must only be me.... 
Anyone know what simple thing I'm missing?
   

Wild guesses might include:
 - problem with java, shockwave, or other plugin/extension that is
   'auto-loaded' for all profiles
 - corrupt mime.types or mailcap files
 

I'll take all the wild guesses I can get. Thanks Brad.
I've tried  turning off java, and the only plugin remaining is the 
default libnullplugin.co. Basically the user setup is identical to the 
root setup.

Hmmmm... corrupt mime.types or mailcap files?
I'm not really sure what I'm doing here, but I've deleted old ~.mailcap 
and ~/mime.types; and then ran update-mime and run-mailcap with no 
change. Is there anything else I can do here?

The fact that things work as root is interesting (assuming it's not a red
herring).  Does anyone know if mozilla goes into a 'safe' mode when run as
root (eg. with respect to loading/handling plugins)?
If none of this solves the problem, then you might want to downgrade to a
previous version and pin the package in apt.  If you're lucky there will be
an old version or two in /var/cache/apt/archives/ that you can use.  (Copy
the .deb somewhere so it don't get purged before you need it again.)
 

Installed 1.6-7
mozilla-browser
mozilla-mailnews
mozilla-psm
libnss3
libnspr4
Hmmmmm... It's still the same.
works fine on Debian and Slashdot and crashes on Freshmeat.
This may be more my fault than sid's, but I wont know until I solve it.
-- Brad
 

Any other ideas anyone?
Thanks
John
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