From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 11:36: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.internet.co.nz (mail.internet.co.nz [210.48.22.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EA7437B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:35:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7400 invoked by uid 505); 25 Jan 2002 19:34:50 -0000 Received: from g.todd@internet.co.nz by mail.internet.co.nz with qmail-scanner-1.03 (. Clean. Processed in 0.94724 secs); 25 Jan 2002 19:34:50 -0000 Received: from ip-210-48-25-30.asiaonline.net.nz (HELO Hawk) (210.48.25.30) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 19:34:49 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:38:21 +1300 From: Glenn Todd To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , Joe Clarke Subject: Re: Cannot start Mozilla (Problem solved) Message-ID: <20020126083821.A536@Hawk.internet.co.nz> Reply-To: g.todd@internet.co.nz References: <20020121211104.A2787@Hawk.internet.co.nz> <20020121105101.N56403-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020122194457.A442@Hawk.internet.co.nz> <1011682190.27639.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1011682190.27639.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>; from marcus@marcuscom.com on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 19:49:49 +1300 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.0 Lines: 106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Your guidance has resolved my problem. Once I removed the Locale settings from my profile Mozilla started as expected. Of note the crrect entry was in /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/res/unixcharset.properties, and a check of $LANG after I started Gnome was "en_AU.ISO_8859-1" I do not know where this is being set, however, my system now works so I will leave well enough alone. Thanks for you help Glenn On 2002.01.22 19:49 Joe Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 01:44, Glenn Todd wrote: > > Joe > > > > My locale settings are as follows, they didn't affect the earlier > version > > of mozilla. > > > > > > LC_ALL="en_GB.ISO_8859-1" > > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO_8859-1" > > LANG="en_GB.ISO_8859-1" > > That should be fine in PORTREVISION 2 of Mozilla. However, if you want > to see if you are running into the locale bug, unset all three of the > above variables, and launch Mozilla from the prompt. > > If it starts, you have the locale problem. Verify the following entry > appears in /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/res/unixcharset.properties: > > locale.all.en_GB.ISO_8859-1=ISO-8859-1 > > If not, add it, reset your locale variables, then restart Mozilla. If > the entry does appear, you have another problem that we haven't seen > yet. We'll need to do more investigating, and a truss might be needed. > > Joe > > > > > Glenn > > > > > > On 2002.01.22 04:51 Joe Clarke wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Glenn Todd wrote: > > > > > > > I have recently updated my ports (portinstall -rR ) > and > > > > have everything in my system as current, but now cannot get Mozilla > to > > > run. > > > > > > > > I can start the initial set up if I remove the .mozilla from my > home > > > > directory however, but cannot get pass the create user as the indow > > > will > > > > not allow me to set or find a directory path for the .mozilla > > > directory. > > > > (it is blank). > > > > > > This could be a problem with your locale setting. What do you have > for > > > LANG or LC_CTYPE? > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > As I needed a browser so I resorted to installing galeon. It runs > but > > > its > > > > dialogue windows open with out any text. My guess that I have an > old > > > or > > > > incompatible library somewhere, has anyone experienced a similar > > > situation > > > > and any ideas on the fix. > > > > > > > > Key installs: > > > > > > > > FreeBSD Hawk 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0 > > > > mozilla-0.9.7_2,1 > > > > gnome-1.4.1b2_1 > > > > > > > > Glenn > > > > > > > > Wellington, > > > > New Zealand > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message