Weird Mozilla problem.

[rayvd]

I've installed Mozilla 1.7.13.01.00 on an HP-UX system and am having some weird symptoms starting it up as a user.

If I start up mozilla (using ./mozilla) as root, it fires right up, regardless of what my cwd is.

If I start up mozilla as a user (from the user's home directory -- /opt/mozilla is in the user's path btw), the mozilla-bin binary gets called, but no browser window ever pops up (the license agreement pops up on first run however).

If I run mozilla as a user from /opt/mozilla, everything works fine.

Clearly this must be an environment issue... anyone have any clue on what I should set aside from the PATH (as it is already set correctly)?

[Jonathan Fife]

So if you are root and just run "mozilla" and not ./mozilla, does it work? What directory are you in when you run ./mozilla?

[rayvd]

Correct, as root I can run mozilla (from any directory) and it starts up as expected.

I did notice one thing which may be enough to solve this issue for now. I was running the user account with the bash shell. When I went back to the default shell (ksh), running mozilla from any directory _as a user_ worked fine.

Weird.

Since most users on this box are using ksh I don't think I'll worry about this until some of them start using bash or have this problem themselves :-)

FYI for anyone else who runs into this though... mozilla-bin would be running, but no display would pop up. I actually had to kill -9 the mozilla-bin script (normal kill wouldn't get rid of it).

Would have been interesting to run the equiv. of truss on it...