> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ruprecht > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:06 PM > To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Firefox won't run > > > 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? >
Hi Peter, Thanks for help me out. It does indeed seem to be a NFS lock issue. If I mount the home tree using the "nolock" option firefox starts up just fine. I've only used NFS a couple of times before so I'm not all that familiar with it. Is it bad to not use locking? If it is bad, how do I trace down the problem. The system's log files don't have anything useful in them. I've turned off the firewall on the server for testing but that didn't help. There is a lockd process running but the only thing that's made a difference so far is using "nolock" on the client to mount the home directory. Greg _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
