Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:40:43 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Glenn Todd <g.todd@internet.co.nz> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cannot start Mozilla (Problem solved) Message-ID: <20020125144016.J80016-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020126083821.A536@Hawk.internet.co.nz>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Glenn Todd wrote: > 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. Good to hear. This problem is being looked into on the Mozilla side, and will probably be fixed in 0.9.9. Joe > > 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 <desired ports>) > > 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
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