Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:11:04 -0400 From: "sagacious" <sagacious@unixhideout.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Cant get browser to work as a user. Message-ID: <CGEIKJFNGMJHCMFBJGJFCEHMCBAA.sagacious@unixhideout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020711070727.GA59106@vectors.cx>
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Man, you rock. It was the last mozilla script you mentioned that was
executable only by root. however now it cannot open a required .so file in
the /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla directory.. For some reason the entire
/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla directory is readable only by root... Is it safe for
me to chmod -R 755 /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla ? /usr/X11R6/lib/ seems to be ok
as all is readable to everyone, but the mozilla directory is not at all.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Adam Weinberger
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:07 AM
To: sagacious
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cant get browser to work as a user.
take a look at /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla. that is a shell script wrapper
for mozilla-bin, which is the actual runtime executable.
/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla calls /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla, which is
another shell script wrapper. this is the one that looks for the
runtime, and is the file that is spitting out the error (line 75). this
file calls run-mozilla.sh, ANOTHER shell script wrapper. however, it
looks like your system is either (a) unable to find the script, or (b)
is unable to execute it.
as root, ls -la /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh
check to see:
(a) it exists
(b) it is executable by everybody.
it should look like this:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10K May 24 15:41
/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh
if this is all correct, check that /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin
has the same permissions.
if the permissions on either of the files is incorrect, chmod the files
as chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh or whatever the
offending filename is.
failing any of this, reinstall the port. this has never been a problem
on any of my machines.
out of curiosity: did you install www/mozilla or www/linux-mozilla?
-Adam
>> (07.10.2002 @ 2012 PST): sagacious said, in 0.7K: <<
>
>
> hello once again.
>
> I got x up and i want a browser. I installed mozilla from the ports tree
as
> root, and when i am a user and run mozilla i get the following error.
> "Cannot find mozilla runtime error" exiting.
> However when i run it as root, i have no problems. Obviously, when run as
a
> user theirs a permission problem somewhere? But where would that be? Its
of
> no shock to you i dont want to run a browser as root. any info
appreciated.
--
"Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw."
-Lilo
Adam Weinberger
adam@vectors.cx
http://www.crackula.com
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