Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:15:50 +0200 From: Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't start Message-ID: <20050409131550.2bafaffb.fbusse@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20050409095949.GB9427@ayvali.org> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> <20050409095949.GB9427@ayvali.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org>: > > 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.) Nope, 'find /usr -perm 700' and 'find /usr -perm 600' show up nothing unusual. Just three files from xdm. Still no firefox :( -- Fridtjof Busse "Some things don't need the thought people give them." -Hobbes
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050409131550.2bafaffb.fbusse>