Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:06:45 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Trust_No_1 <trust_no_1@libero.it>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thunderbird does not start if user is not member of "wheel" group Message-ID: <56AA2075.8060500@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <56A4B16F.2050707@libero.it> References: <56A4B16F.2050707@libero.it>
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On 2016-01-24 12:11, Trust_No_1 via freebsd-questions wrote: > Hello everybody. > sorry for the stupid question, but I'm facing a strange (for me) problem. > Let me explain: > I have a nice FreeBSD workstation (running FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p10) > that works very well for me. > > On this ws I have two users (say user1 and user2), but only one of them > (user1) is in the wheel group. > The second user is just in it's own group because I do not use it to > administer the ws. > So I have: > > root@dukefleed:~ # groups user1 > user1 wheel > > root@dukefleed:~ # groups user2 > users > > If I launch thunderbird with user1 all is OK but, if I try to start > thunderbird as user2, I receive the following error: > > user2@dukefleed:~ % thunderbird > Could not find the Mozilla runtime. > > No matter if I try to launch it via the full path, cd into > /usr/local/bin,... it does not start. > > The problem disappear if I add user2 to the wheel group. > Providing that I could add user2 to the wheel group and solve the > problem, I would like to know why I have this behavior. > > By the way: on the same ws, firefox DOES start without problems for both > the two users, and in particular (for user2) it starts even if I do NOT > add it to the wheel group. > > Sorry but I googled a lot without finding any link to a solution... > > Do you have any ideas? > > I use thunderbird 38.5.0 > > Thank you very much and kind regards. > > Mauro. > This is from my testbox bernt@testbox:~ % whereis thunderbird thunderbird: /usr/local/bin/thunderbird /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird bernt@testbox:~ % file /usr/local/bin/thunderbird /usr/local/bin/thunderbird: symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
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