Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:16:48 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Firas Kraiem <fkraiem@enib.fr> Subject: Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <200701171516.49195.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200701172037.16597.fkraiem@enib.fr> References: <200701172037.16597.fkraiem@enib.fr>
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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
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