Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:27:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Lewis Thompson <lewiz@fajita.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 0.9 Port Message-ID: <20040617182739.GA763@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040617180450.GA16862@fajita.org> References: <20040617173609.GB31413@qwest.net> <20040617180450.GA16862@fajita.org>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:04:50PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote:
> > The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all
> > I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm:
> >=20
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> >=20
> > The browser never actually starts and that message keeps repeating until
> > I ^C out of it.
>=20
> Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that
> but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files.
I found that running as root via sudo meant that firefox created a
root-owned ~/.mozilla/firefox directory -- so as soon as I tried to
run it under my own UID, that lead to being constantly asked to create
a new profile, failing to do that and then crashing as observed.
Doing a
% sudo chown -R matthew:matthew ~/.mozilla
fixed the problems and Firefox is running very nicely now, although
occasionally some unknown thing triggers it to dump core when
quitting. Obviously (do I really need to say this?) substitute your
own usernamed and default group in the above.
Most ways of becoming root won't alter the ${HOME} environment
variable -- other than a full 'su -' or logging into the console as
root, so I'd expect this doing nasty things to file ownerships to be
quite common.
Cheers,
Matthew
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