Mozilla 1.4 problems. Help needed. No running window found.

[Lowell Gilbert]

Marc LeMaire <krockmitaine at sympatico.ca> writes:

> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 22:18, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> >
> >>Mozilla compiles fine it seems, but when I go to run it, I get this, and
> >>it dies.
> >>
> >>$mozilla
> >>No running window found.
> >>Xlib:  extension "RENDER" missing on display "203.1.96.3:0.0".
> >>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2: Undefined symbol
> >>"XRenderQuerySubpixelOrder"
> >>
> >>Could someone tell me how to fix this please? Surely I'm not the only
> >>one with the problem ????
> >>
> >
> >Actually, you're the first one that has reported this.  This simple is
> >defined in libXrender installed as part of XFree86-libraries-4.3.0.  You
> >need to have XFree86-libraries 4.3.0 installed for this to work.
> >
> >Joe
> >
> If I remember correctly, I have installed those libraries..
> In fact, the only message that I got when I started Moz from a
> terminal is the "No running window found" message, whithout the Xlib
> message.
> I then unistalled and re-installed it to no effect. I remember that
> /stand/sysinstall reported a problem but I can't find the paper on
> witch I wrote the message
> I didn't had the time to investigate the problem correctly, that's why
> I waited before reporting the problem.

It looks (based on a way-too-quick look; sorry I haven't got the time
to check in more depth) like you need a more recent update to those
than was shipped with 4.8 RELEASE.  If you can't update your X
libraries, then drop back to the mozilla package shipped with 4.8.