Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:06:32 +0100 From: Firas Kraiem Pro <fkraiem@enib.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Subject: Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <200701172206.32175.fkraiem@enib.fr> In-Reply-To: <200701171516.49195.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <200701172037.16597.fkraiem@enib.fr> <200701171516.49195.lists@jnielsen.net>
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Problem solved. For some reason, my ~/.mozilla/ was owned by root so just chown'ing it did the trick. Thanks for the help. Firas On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:16, you wrote: > 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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