[H-GEN] xwin error

[James Brown]

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Dear General,
            I'm relatively new to linux and I have a spot of trouble.  I
just recently installed Debian (from Redhat 8) and I have sort of worked
out the apt-get thing (somehow I managed to get a combination of testing
and unstable).
            My problem is this: debian worked fine for some time but one
day I found that mozilla would crash - It would load but when I went to
the first page it would crash.  No moans, groans or error messages. 
Just silently crashed.  Somehow I found that if I ran mozilla as root
with no settings ie.
>su
?password?
>mozilla &
it would work fine.  Beautifully in fact.  But if I ran mozilla as root
(su -) or as my normal user it would crash.  It seems that there must be
some setting (perhaps a shell variable) that is making it crash.  I
found that the problem was replicated with abiword - does exactly the
same thing - so it is not a mozilla problem.
           My problem is that I don't know where to go from here - if
there would be any log files that would mention anything etc etc.
Any suggestions ?

thanks in advance,
Regards Jim Brown


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