Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:25:48 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mac Mason <mac@cs.hmc.edu> Subject: Re: Mozilla and Firefox fail to start Message-ID: <20050201182548.GB15135@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200502011227.56991.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> References: <20050201040730.GA15066@orthanc.st.hmc.edu> <200502011227.56991.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
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--kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:27:56PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2005 11:07 pm, Mac Mason wrote: > > "So", I say to myself, "wouldn't it be nice to have firefox?" > > > > So, cd to the right place, make install clean... > > > > and then try to run it...and it thinks for two or three seconds, > > and hands me my prompt back. > > > > No core file, no browser, no error message. > > > > "Hm..." I think to myself. "...maybe mozilla will work." > > > > So, I repeat the same process. > > > > And mozilla won't start either; it does the very same thing. > > > > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, with the most-recent errata. > > > > Any ideas? IIRC, you have to start Mozilla and firefox the first time as root. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB/8msEnfvsMMhpyURAmFYAKCcmmAB6vl/ONoGyB4JNKIFwzMydACfVILT dnHLwfsUy2cKKk46VIOeqUE= =du8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R--
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