> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugh Brown > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:16 PM > To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Firefox won't run > > 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. > > > > Greg Cornell > > > > > > > > /usr/bin/firefox is a shell script, so you need to tell strace to > follow all forked sub process. > > I do strace like so > > strace -fvvvto strace-firefox.log -s 2048 /usr/bin/firefox > > Then look through strace-firefox.log > > The strace file you sent looks like it starts the actual binary > /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox and which dies right away and returns as > much to the shell script. The -f would allow you to see what it does > between forking and returning. > > Hugh
Hi Hugh, Thanks for your help. That certainly produces way more output, but I still don't see anything helpful. I think I've determined the problem is a NFS lock issue but I'm still trying to figure that out. The new strace output file is too bit to send but I could get it to you somehow if you want to take a look at it. Greg _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
