At 09:55 05/26/2005 -0700, Serge Rey wrote: >hi all, > >i'm trying to resuscitate an old laptop (vaio z505) that i had loaned >out for a few years and which just came home. > >still works like a charm, but i'm running into a snag with firefox. i >can only get it running using: sudo firefox >if i try to start it as a regular user, i get nothing - no errors just >back to a prompt. > >i'm thinking this is a permissions problem with how firefox gets >installed but i'm hand waving here. > >i'm running a mixed unstable-testing debian. > >any pointers would be appreciated.
Check the ownership of the .mozilla directory for the user. I had this same problem and for some reason my .mozilla directory was owned by root. I found this out by running the program with strace and seeing where it quit. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
