Bug#453632: iceape hangs up at startup on an error box

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:40:30AM +0100, tech at mediaforest.net wrote:
> Package: iceape
> Version: 1.0.11~pre071022-0etch1+lenny1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Yesterday Iceape was working perfectly but today, when trying to start iceape, It hangs up showing an error message in a window :
> 
> Erreur d'analyse XML : entité non définie
> Emplacement : chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul
> Numéro de ligne 62, Colonne 1 :<window id="main-window"
> ^  <broadcaster id="Communicator:WorkMode"
> --^    <menuitem label="&openHelpCmd.label;" 
> ----^

Do you happen to have installed an extension as root ?
Does it work better if you remove the $HOME/.mozilla/default/XUL.mfasl
file ?
Did you try to run iceape under another user or move out the
$HOME/.mozilla directory ?

Mike