Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 02:45:41 -0400 From: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't start Message-ID: <42577A15.10508@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20050409064329.3439161f.fbusse@gmx.de> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> <1113003554.817.2.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <20050409064329.3439161f.fbusse@gmx.de>
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Fridtjof Busse wrote: >* Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>: > > >>>I just installed FreeBSD 5.4RC, everything works so fine. >>>Just firefox won't work (running xfce), neither the package nor the >>>port. I can only start it as root, under a normal user nothing >>>happens at all. /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox quits after a second and no >>>firefox. How can I fix this? >>>Thanks. >>> >>> >>At a guess, you may have created some configuration files owned by >>root the first time you started it. Try hunting them down and >>deleting them, and start firefox from a user account again. >> >> > >At first run, I tried to start firefox under the local user of course. >When that wouldn't work , I searched Google and found an old bug about >similiar behavior that suggested running firefox as root the first >time. Didn't help, so I'm stuck since it's uite some time I used >FreeBSD. > > > >>Also try running firefox from a command line in an xterm, if you >>haven't already done so, and see if there are any helpful error >>messages. >> >> > >I'm starting it from commandline. It doesn't print any errors and exits >after a second. >Under root, it starts and gives me debugging messages. > > > Does it do a core dump? What options did you use to compile? Are your dependancies out of date? There was just a big gnome update, see freebsd.org/gnome for an update script.
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