On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 09:45, David Meyer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I am in root, Netscape works perfectly. When I am logged in as myself,
> the back and forward buttons don't function properly.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the heck is going on here? I can't figure it out.
>
As a normal user:
I would suggest moving $HOME/.netscape to $HOME/.netscape.old and then
reopening Netscape.
$ mv $HOME/.netscape $HOME/.netscape.old
$ netscape &
If Netscape works correctly, you could diff the new .netscape with the
.netscape.old directories/files in order to track down the problem.
$ diff $HOME/.netscape $HOME/.netscape.old
If you are using Netscape 6.x, the directory is $HOME/.netscape6.
In addition, you could try strace.
$ strace netscape
One other thing you could verify is whether everyone has read access to
all the files in the netscape directories -- I think the directory for
Netscape 4.x is /usr/lib/netscape; Netscape 6.x installer defaults to
/usr/local/netscape.
$ ls -lR /usr/lib/netscape | more
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