On 3/2/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I had the same issue when I first made firefox,
probability is the your $HOME/.mozilla directory is owned by root with only
or no read permissions to other users.
firefox read. creates all of its data in that directory by default, so you
may want to login as root
and do
find / -name ".mozilla" -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
That will show all the directories that are .mozilla once you figured
which your $HOME's .mozilla
you can issue chown user:group .mozilla directory and then your firefox may
start normally
Best regards
DAK
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
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