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Festy
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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:14 pm Post subject: Mozilla refuses to start: Problem with Truetype Fonts |
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I've emerge'd both 1.2.1 and 1.3 and get the same thing happening with mozilla - once installed I type 'mozilla' and press enter and it pauses for less than a second and puts me back at the prompt.
| Code: | acid root # mozilla
acid root # mozilla -debug
acid root # |
I put mozilla -debug in there to show that it isnt even giving me debug information. I've re-emerge'd mozilla acid root # mozilla
acid root # mozilla -debug
acid root #
four times now and its really starting to irritate me, becuase on all previous Gentoo installs it has just worked.
Does anyone have anyclues what might be causing this?
Thanks in advance 
Sam.
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easykill
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:13 am Post subject: |
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try running it as a regular user rather than as root.
I try to run as little as possible as root, and mozilla definitely does not need to be run as root. Very few X apps should ever be run as root, in my opinion. Try logging on as a regular user, starting up X, and then running mozilla.
Regardless of how I feel, it may solve your problem. Otherwise, you may need to look into your .Xauthority settings... |
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crazy-bee
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem a while ago.
- Remove your .mozilla directory (backup it first)
- Remove /usr/lib/mozilla
In my case, e- and umerging mozilla left some "bad" stuff behind in /usr/lib/mozilla. Manually cleaning that directory and emerging again after helped me!
Another thing you can try is strace mozilla and see where it stops. In case you dont have strace, simply emerge strace. |
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Festy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 3:21 am Post subject: |
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Ok, I ran strace mozilla, and it segfaults when it tries to load the truetype fonts I imported with the KDE Font Installer - What would cause that, becuase I've had truetype fonts working perfectly in Mozilla before? 
EDIT - This is what strace returns:
| Code: | open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype//fonts.cache-1", O_RDONLY) = 17
stat64("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=520, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype//fonts.cache-1", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4766, ...}) = 0
close(17) = 0
stat64("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=520, ...}) = 0
writev(5, [{"\22\0\6\0\25\0`\2#\1\0\0\27\1\0\0\10AME\0\0\0\0\22\0\6"..., 1056}, {"RENDER", 6}, {"\0\0", 2}], 3) = 1064
read(5, "\34\0\"\1\25\0`\2#\1\0\0j\355\337z\0\0\0\0\f\262\27@\350"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\34\0#\1\25\0`\2\'\0\0\0j\355\337z\0\0\0\0j\355\337z\350"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\34\0$\1\25\0`\2%\0\0\0j\355\337z\0\0\0\0j\355\337z\350"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\34\0%\1\25\0`\2$\0\0\0j\355\337z\0\0\0\0j\355\337z\350"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\34\0&\1\25\0`\2\26\1\0\0j\355\337z\0\0\0\0j\355\337z\350"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\23\0A\0011\0`\0021\0`\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0@\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\22\0E\0011\0`\0021\0`\2\0\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\350\265"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\1\0G\1\0\0\0\0\1\232\0\2551\304\f\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1"..., 32) = 32
write(5, "\232\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\7\0\0\0\232\1\1\0", 16) = 16
read(5, "\1sH\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\344\261"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "\1\305I\1\240\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\7\0\0\0\20\0\0\0#"..., 32) = 32
read(5, "g\0\0\0\1\1,K\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0h"..., 640) = 640
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
unlink("/root/.mozilla/default/4wx0qmib.slt/lock") = 0
_exit(11) = ? |
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blackwing
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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got EXACTLY the same problem after my last emerge -u world.
some digging and stracing/debugging lead me to the point, that fontconfig 2.1-r1 is causing problems with mozilla, gdm and even k3b or nautilus.
gdm-greeter or mozilla are segfaulting, nautilus is just not starting.
downgrading BACK to the plain 2.1 release solved the issue.
so gentoo-portage admins, please mask 2.1-r1 since it cost me several days to fugure out what was causing this problem.
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Festy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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I cant try it now, becuase I'm in windows (I need my good fonts and a decent browser...damnit  ), but thanks! This means I might be able to go back to using Gentoo again .
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