From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 19:38:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D049116A403 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: from web53404.mail.yahoo.com (web53404.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CC3113C4A8 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 581 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Mar 2007 19:38:43 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=w6dc1YYrtZZbQhkqb92NTQqzItpHb3zDVHwSB2RywgfNp3JCumMvkCyVTKGiM4a1UkhEsbgtN5nAmHXABliBikZvmikC+rh0pVmHCardMYxNcRbzmhxg31ryNqc0z1H1+HkPpj9VfwkMFhSnYZxzV0EXcrByrTSl4DEPsSJ/G80=; X-YMail-OSG: QOWumcYVM1lnRbtUWISvCD1ysIOQAdFghLOAn8bQ7ZjyJNUY77MZMH6DCUyW5QPDZ9Tof7m1Lqo1Aqvs5qM_H3TCsLXUtzpdWnWTFy1dxTCN9vqs9zq4UqgIgv5oEM3BrIVWsMAKOd6LYINOH.uKfyxYUw-- Received: from [166.84.1.2] by web53404.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:38:43 PST Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 11:38:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" To: Paulette McGee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <684714.83355.qm@web62309.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <737050.288.qm@web53404.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Firefox only runs as root--help! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:38:45 -0000 Paulette McGee wrote: --- "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" wrote: > This is a resend of something i sent to the > freebsd-gnome list a few days > ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real > problem, so i hope > no one minds. > > I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed > Gnome 2.16 and other things, including Firefox 2.0, > from Ports. > > Firefox only runs as root. Every time. I Googled and > saw that in an early > version there was a problem that it had to be run > the _first_ time as root > but after that it was OK, but thats not the problem > here--it ONLY runs as > root all the time. If I type "firefox" on the > command line it > just immediately returns to the command line, no > error messages > of any sort, nothing in /var/log/messages. > > When run as root it seems to be fine. The binary has > execute > permissions for everyone. > > What do i need to be doing? > > Thanks! > > Jen > > > --------------------------------- > Finding fabulous fares is fun. > Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel > sites to find flight and hotel bargains. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > What happens if you type "firefox" on the command line as a normal user?As i posted in the message you replied to, if you type firefox nothing happens, it just returns silently to the commandline. But anyway the problem was that my .mozilla directory and everything in it was permitted only to root. So when i changed that everything worked fine. Thanks! Jen --------------------------------- No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.