Subject: Re: firefox-linux doesn't work on diskless machine
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/10/2005 15:21:10
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Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> 
>>On a diskless machine, I can't seem to get firefox-linux to work. It just
>>returns, doesn't throw errors or anything.
>  
> Does it work if you rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/compreg.dat ?  
> 

No. I even tried to move the whole .mozilla directory out of the way. 
Firefox gets as far as creating the "appreg" file and "firefox" 
directory, with a default profile, profiles.ini etc. All looks well.

>>On the NFS server, I can get it to work, and these filesystems are
>>exported to the net-booted workstation...
>  
> I think you must use different profiles on different machines...  

Right. Most likely each user will use the same machine all the time.

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> 
>> On a diskless machine, I can't seem to get firefox-linux to work. It 
>> just returns, doesn't throw errors or anything.
>
> Make sure your /tmp and /home are large enough.
> 
> I had noticed this several times when running firefox (especially with 
> ssl) on a diskless machine that plenty of space was needed. I don't 
> remember how much thou0=gh.
> 

aster $ df -h /tmp /home              at
Filesystem                         Size      Used     Avail Capacity 
Mounted on
192.168.1.110:/export/aster/root    28G     934M       26G     3%    /
192.168.1.110:/home                 28G     3.5G       23G    13%    /home

:)

plenty of space! Deceptive, though because it's the same 28G. These NFS 
sharepoints are on the same FFS partition on the server.

Louis



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