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Cc: Firas Kraiem <fkraiem@enib.fr>
Subject: Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE
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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote:
> Hi to all of you !
>
> The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install
> seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to
> run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without any
> output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've tried, i.e. :
> 1.5.0.8 package on the 6.2-RELEASE CD, 2.0.0.1 both from packages and ports
> and 2.0.0.1 Linux version from ports. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Try running it once as root. I know this is required in most of the 1.x 
versions, but I didn't think it was in 2.0. Anyway, something like this 
should suffice:

su
cp /home/$user/.Xauthority /root
firefox

JN