[Gloucs] Using Mozilla as a local application on an LTSP Workstation

Dave Addison gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Feb 17 00:03:01 2003


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In message <UawHcQD30AU+EAS6@phaedra1.demon.co.uk>, Dave Addison=20
<dave@redmoor.org.uk> writes
>Hi All,
>
>I'm hoping that someone can give me a hand with this. For reasons=20
>associated with lousy font rendering in Netscape, I'm trying to set up=20
>Mozilla as a local application on an diskless workstation using the=20
>Linux Terminal Server Project.
>
>I think I've installed every dependency mentioned in the mozilla RPM=20
>but when I fire it up I'm presented with a blank window with a single=20
>vertical line down it and a set of error messages on the console.
>
>*** Failed to load overlay=20
>chrome://messenger/content/mailNavigatorOverlay.xul
>*** Failed to load overlay chrome://inspector/content/tasksOverlay.xul
>*** Failed to load overlay chrome://venkman/content/venkman-verlay.xul
>*** Failed to load overlay=20
>chrome://messenger/content/mailTasksOverlay.xul
>*** Failed to load overlay=20
>chrome://chatzilla/content/chatzillaOverlay.xul
>Warning add child failed!!
>Warning add child failed!!
>Warning add child failed!!
>Warning add child failed!!
>Warning add child failed!!
>
>Since the only thing in the directories mentioned is a .rdf file and no=20
>.xul files, my working assumption is a failure to extract information=20
>from the .rdf file. Anybody have any ideas what I've missed?
Answered my own question. I had to run the mozilla_rebuild_databases.pl=20
script installed with the browser. All works fine now. Although whether=20
it can be called a thin client now Perl is installed is another question=20
altogether
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Dave Addison

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