Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:24:01 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@rahn-koltermann.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox - *** loading the extensions datasource Message-ID: <1087680241.10847.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <1087679838.1042.35.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com> References: <1087545571.70951.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1087679838.1042.35.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com>
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On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 14:17, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > Am Fr, den 18.06.2004 schrieb Sean McNeil um 9:59: > > OK, > > > > So I have firefox working as root and it doesn't print anything when I > > run it. > > > > As my regular user, it print the > > > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > > > and then core dumps. I think I have some old cruft somewhere, but I > > Nobody reads release notes nowadays, I guess. From the page at > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/ in section " > Known Issues": > > * If Firefox 0.9 is placed in a location with limited access > privileges, it should be run by a user with access to that > location first, so that all initial startup files are generated. > There may be issues still where if a restricted-access user is > the first to run the app, these files may not be generated > properly and Firefox may enter an infinite restart loop. This > will be fixed in a future release. > > Running firefox as root once did the trick for me. Nobody reads the full thread before they comment these days, I guess :) I did exactly that and it did NOT work for me. I had to do some extra things with deleting some directories before it worked. Now, it only "sort of" works as I have a good deal of additional problems. The first issue I had was that cc is broken for amd64 and thunks. I found a fix for that. Secondly, I got the same core dump whether I ran with root or not. Third, once I got root to work my user account did NOT work and I got this message whereas I didn't get it running as root. Cheers, Sean
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