Re: mozilla and mozilla-thunderbird wont start

From: Kevin B. McCarty (kmccarty_at_Princeton.EDU)
Date: 02/18/05

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    Hi Michael,

    > Several weeks ago I tried to upgrade GNOME to the latest
    > version, 2.8. Since then I have been unable to
    > use most web browsers, and cant easily read my email
    > there (except with pine).

    Do you have problems with other graphical applications too, or just with
    Mozilla-related programs? For instance, what happens if you try to run
    the GIMP? (type "gimp" at the command line or select Applications ->
    Graphics -> GIMP Image Editor)

    > - I installed mozilla-thunderbird (v. 1.0-3). It also fails to
    > start from the menu; from the command line,
    >
    >
    > % mozilla-thunderbird
    > selected locale: en-US
    > Xlib: connection to "0:0" refused by server
    > Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client

    This sounds like maybe your .Xauthority file is broken. Try deleting it
    and then restarting X, which will create a new one automatically.

    > Removing galeon-common ...
    > rm: cannot remove `/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/galeon': No such file or directory
    > dpkg: error processing galeon-common (--purge):
    > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

    This looks like galeon-common has an error in its prerm script.
    Specifically, it apparently tries to "rm" something without first making
    sure it exists or using "rm -f". Maybe you could file this as a bug
    against the galeon-common package.

    > euclid: ~ # apt-get remove --purge mozilla-firefox
    > Reading Package Lists... Done
    > Building Dependency Tree... Done
    > The following packages will be REMOVED:
    > gnome* gnome-desktop-environment* mozilla-firefox*
    > mozilla-firefox-gnome-support*

    Don't be alarmed by this. "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment" are
    metapackages, meaning that they are mostly empty packages whose only
    purpose is to depend upon a set of other packages so that it's easy to
    install them all at once. Run "dpkg -L gnome" to see for yourself.
    Removing "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment" will not actually
    affect any of your GNOME programs.

    However, I'm not convinced that your original problem was a problem with
    Mozilla-based browsers - see my above comments.

    Good luck, 

    -- 
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