Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 05:59:49 -0400 From: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> To: Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't start Message-ID: <20050409095949.GB9427@ayvali.org> In-Reply-To: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de>
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* Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de> [2005-04-08 18:32:49 +0200]: > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4RC, everything works so fine. Just firefox > won't work (running xfce), neither the package nor the port. I can > only start it as root, under a normal user nothing happens at all. > /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox quits after a second and no firefox. Had same problem under 5.3. Tracked it down to permissions problems when I gave root a new shell (with umask 077 instead of 022). Run find on /usr and see if there are any files/dirs with perms of 600/700 that look like they should be public. (I believe in my case it was some gconf dirs.) hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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