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


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