Same problem here, ever since I installed the radial menu. unmerging, deleting every single file regarding firebird, and re-emerging did not help.
Jonathan C.
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Klaus D. Neumann wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2003 08:22 pm, Alan wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann wrote:
> > > On Sunday 20 July 2003 06:20 pm, Yorkshire Dave wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 01:32, Klaus D. Neumann wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > after I installed quicktools in Firebird, I am only able to run
> > > > > Firebird as root. As normal user it won't start any longer. Is this a
> > > > > known problem? How can I uninstall quicktools?
> > > >
> > > > When mozilla only runs as root, it often indicates a problem with file
> > > > or directory permissions (in my experience anyway)
> > > >
> > > > run strace on it, you'll find out what it's dying on
> > >
> > > Hmm..., it's not dying, it kind of hangs, waiting for something to
> > > happen, I believe. Does this make sense to you?:
> > > -------------------------------
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079e10, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4005ac68}, {SIG_DFL},
> > > 8) = 0
> > > wait4(-1,
> >
> > I don't think it's a problem with quicktools. I just installed the
> > mozilla-firebird-cvs ebuild today and I'm getting the same symptoms, and
> > the same strace (or similar anyway, the end wait4 is the same anyway).
>
> Interesting! Can you start it as root? I could. Now I unmerged Firebird,
> deleted the Firebird directory in /usr/lib/ and am about to emerge it again.
> The strange thing is, it worked just perfectly before I added quicktools.
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