Josh,
Thanks for the ideas. However, this turned out to be something far more
innocuous. I had a shell stacksize limit set that i'd forgotten about
which apparently firefox and mozilla didn't like (d'oh).
slaton
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Josh Kelley wrote:
> On 11/10/05, slaton <slaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Since installing the latest yum updates a couple of days ago, I'm
> > unable to start Firefox or Mozilla. Both fail silently with no
> > messages printed to console. This is a 32-bit dual Xeon box running
> > Centos 4.2.
>
> Try seeing if you have any plugins causing problems. For example, RHEL
> 4 currently has a bug with the Java plugin, although it doesn't cause
> problems at startup:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170447
>
> Did you try running strace? From the command prompt,
> strace firefox
> or
> strace mozilla
> This will display a log of the system calls made by Firefox or
> Mozilla; often, the last few calls will give a clue as to what the
> problem is.
>
> Josh Kelley
