On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Greg Cornell wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm having trouble with firefox on a RHEL 5.2 client workstation (fully up to > date). It doesn't run as a normal user but runs fine as root. When I run > the firefox command as a normal user, there aren't any messages displayed, it > just waits for about 4-5 minutes and then gives me the prompt back. > > I've tried Google, Red Hat's knowledgebase and bugzilla, and haven't been > able to find anything helpful. > > I ran 'strace firefox' but didn't find anything in the output that looked > useful (to me at least, but I'm not an expert there). I attached the strace > output for any of you that might what to look through it. > > I also ran 'ltrace firefox' which returned: > ltrace: Can't open ELF file "/usr/bin/firefox" > > but the permissions seem fine to me: > -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:bin_t /usr/bin/firefox > > Any help you can give will be appreciated. >
Just a guess, but I have seen this kind of thing when the user's home directory (or specifically, .mozilla directory) is not writable. Problems like this can also show up if there's a file locking problem. Maybe if the homedirs are NFS-mounted there's some subtle issue with lockd on the server? -Peter Ruprecht _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
