Re: Galeon refusing to launch

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:53:56 +0100, wwp wrote:

> Hello Beartooth,
> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth Sciurivore
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 	On one of my Fedora 8 machines, Galeon kept showing only a cutout
>> of the desktop I had just come to it from, and letting it sit while I
>> used another machine didn't help.
>> 
>> 	I finally closed it, and now it won't launch.
>> 
>> 	There are no huge cruft files in .galeon.
>> 
>> 	I ran 'yum remove galeon' followed by 'yum install galeon' -- the
>> biggest hammer I know. No joy.
>> 
[....]
> 
> I've got galeon refusing to start because of a broken bookmarks file,
> once. Found out what line in the file was broken and galeon could then
> start normally.

	Well, I had an awful time finding an app that would open 
a .galeon bookmark file; and when that succeeded, I realized it was going 
to be a huge job looking for anything obviously wrong anywhere.

	But I remembered that I have plenty of other browsers, and Galeon 
isn't the one I keep my main stash in.

	So I started sending whole bookmark files to the trash. 
Eventually I had trashed them all -- and the result is still the same. 
Clicking the launcher in the drawer puts a little box on the panel which 
says (if you put the cursor over it) "Starting Galeon," or words to that 
effect. 

	After a few seconds, the little box goes away. And that's the end 
of that.



-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist
Fedora 8; Ubuntu 7.10; CentOS 5.1; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6
Remember I know little (precious little!) of what I am talking about.


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