Re: [Nautilus-list] strange problem.

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On 01 Jul 2001 11:03:19 -0700, Adam Zolkover wrote:
>
> > Hi.  I'm running nautilus 1.0.3 on debian sid, and I awoke this morning
> > with some font trouble (xfs was having problems loading fonts).  I fixed
> > the font trouble, but when I tried to start nautilus, all it would do
> > was seg fault.  the errors that it gave me were as follows:
> >
> > ** WARNING **:  Unable to find Mozilla with MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME or looking
> > in standard places.
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > Just looking at the error, I would not think that it was connected to my
> > font problems, but in nautilus 1.0.2, I had a problem where nautilus
> > would segfault because it could not locate the font that I had told it
> > to use.  Now, I have all of my fonts working, and yet nautilus still
> > will not start.  any suggestions?
>
> I don't know how debian handles it, but Ximian debs for potato install
> part of mozilla in /usr/lib/mozilla-(version). This is completely
> braindead of course: it forces you to move the plugins dir after every
> mozilla-upgrade, and you must change the 'export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME' to
> the new directory (on my machine in /etc/profile).
> Can it be that apt pulled in a new mozilla (Ximian have upgraded to
> 0.9.1 these days) without you noticing (so easy with apt ... :)

If this turns out to be the problem, I think the real issue would be: 
should Nautilus segfault if it can't find Mozilla?  I thought the two 
were nicely separated . . . .

-b

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