From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 14:54:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0C116A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 14:54:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at (lilzmailso01.liwest.at [212.33.55.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BB843D31 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 14:54:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm250-191.liwest.at ([81.10.250.191] helo=[192.168.1.11]) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1DKHLh-00081P-Kc; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:54:13 +0200 From: Daniela To: Fridtjof Busse , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:55:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> <20050409095949.GB9427@ayvali.org> <20050409131550.2bafaffb.fbusse@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20050409131550.2bafaffb.fbusse@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504091655.55988.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Re: Firefox won't start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dgw@liwest.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:54:16 -0000 On Saturday 09 April 2005 11:15, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > * "N.J. Thomas" : > > > 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. > > > > Had same problem under 5.3. Tracked it down to permissions problems > > when I gave root a new shell (with umask 077 instead of 022). > > > > Run find on /usr and see if there are any files/dirs with perms of > > 600/700 that look like they should be public. (I believe in my case it > > was some gconf dirs.) > > Nope, 'find /usr -perm 700' and 'find /usr -perm 600' show up nothing > unusual. Just three files from xdm. > Still no firefox :( I'd suggest you to run firefox under gdb or with truss. So far I had quite a few programs not starting up properly and in many cases it would exit just after accessing a file and then you know where to look. Or it gets a signal. Daniela -- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.