Hello,

I downloaded ISO images, burned CD's and installed RH 9.0 on July 16,
2003; everything was working fine till yet.

Today, the mozilla have started giving a strange message in a new panel
at the bottom of every window whether it is Navigator, Mail &
Newsgroups, Composer, Address Book and, or Manage Bookmarks etc. Many of
the menu bar options/tags like File, Edit and Help etc are also missing.
The error message appears in red color as follows (in two lines):

<broadcaster id="Communicator:WorkMode"
--^

I attempted to find, this string in ~/.mozilla, /usr/lib/mozilla,
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 subdirectories, but none of the files there
contains this message.

Trying rpm -V mozilla* (all mozilla related packages one by one) gave no
clues at all.

Do I need to re-install mozilla and, or all mozilla related packages? I
could easily have repaired it, if were able to find which component file
is bad and, or corrupt.

I shall highly appreciate any short cuts, pointers and, or ideas.

Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman
--
http://anu.homelinux.net/~bsd/
"Linux is much much better, but not the best as yet,
Do you too work on making a difference?"

Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote:

< snip description of Mozilla problem >

1. Don't run as root so much.

2. You may want to try reinstalling Mozilla:

# rpm -iv --force (names of Mozilla RPMs)

If this doesn't solve the problem, you may have to uninstall all
Mozilla-related RPMs and start over, This is more difficult because of
dependency issues:

# rpm -qa | grep -i mozilla | xargs rpm -e --nodeps

Then reinstall as above.

Another approach is to download the current stable Mozilla (1.4) and install
that, after uninstalling the old Mozilla as above. I have done this and
IMHO the new Mozilla is much better than the old.

--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com