Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:21:28 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Trust_No_1 <trust_no_1@libero.it> Cc: Trust_No_1 via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: thunderbird does not start if user is not member of "wheel" group Message-ID: <20160126082128.6cced7ee.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <56A4B16F.2050707@libero.it> References: <56A4B16F.2050707@libero.it>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:11:43 +0100, Trust_No_1 via freebsd-questions wrote: > 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. Very helpful message. ;-) > No matter if I try to launch it via the full path, cd into > /usr/local/bin,... it does not start. As far as I remember, there are several wrappers involved. > 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. That looks like a permission problem, like if a file or directory needs to be accessed, but cannot - followed by a strange error message. > 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. Being member of the "wheel" group should _never_ be required in order to start a web browser or a MUA. :-) > Sorry but I googled a lot without finding any link to a solution... You could have tried "truss" to gain more information (like which files the program tries to open). > Do you have any ideas? > > I use thunderbird 38.5.0 Update to the most recent version, maybe it's just a problem of a "damaged" installation. Sorry for not being able to provide more help; I stopped using Thunderbird many years ago... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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