* "N.J. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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.)
I'll look into this, thanks. But how can a package have wrong permissions? I installed the port (after deleting everything 'pkg_add -r firefox' installed) after I noticed the package didn't work. -- Fridtjof Busse "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." George W. Bush April 15, 2000 Comment made on NBC's Meet the Press. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
