Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:42 -0800 (PST) From: Robert English <drakcap@pacbell.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Runaway Galeon - further info Message-ID: <20030228193342.76676.qmail@web80103.mail.yahoo.com>
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After deinstalling and reinstalling both Mozilla and Galeon, and also performing the suggested "fc-cache -fv" operation, here's what I found: Logged in as a mortal user, both Mozilla and Galeon operate perfectly well on the KDE desktop. Interestingly enough, the "no open window found" message still appears, but it seems to be benign and have no association with the Mozilla window actually appearing and my being able to surf the Web with it. Opening and closing each more than once does not have any effect on stability. When logged in to KDE as root, however, the "fun" starts. I can start Mozilla only once. It behaves fine the first time, and closes acceptably. I can also run Galeon once and it behaves. But if I try to open Mozilla a second time it spins for a while and appears to die. Memory keeps filling up behind the scenes, however, and the only thing that will stop that is to log out of KDE while I still have enough memory to process that command. Galeon will spontaneously open infinite windows of itself the second time I try to use it. That effectively ruins both apps for the normal user as well, and reinstalling both will cure the problem - until I try to use them while logged in as root again. I did do some portupgrades in the past while logged in as normal user, using the "su root -c" command, which could explain what started this strange process. It was a sloppy practice, I now know, but I didn't know that then. Current "fix", if you can call it that, is to only use Galeon and/or Mozilla while logged in as mortal user. That is until I can figure out what happened and reverse the damage. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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