From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 18:42:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91EB16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:42:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nexus.oss.uswest.net (nexus.oss.uswest.net [209.180.20.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A43743D1D for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:42:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from novak@nexus.oss.uswest.net) Received: (qmail 35642 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2004 18:41:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nexus.oss.uswest.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jun 2004 18:41:49 -0000 Received: (from novak@localhost) by nexus.oss.uswest.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5HIfn5U035640 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:41:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from novak) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:41:49 -0500 From: Jamie Novak To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040617184149.GE31413@qwest.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040617173609.GB31413@qwest.net> <20040617180450.GA16862@fajita.org> <20040617182739.GA763@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040617182739.GA763@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Firefox 0.9 Port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:42:19 -0000 On 06/17, Matthew Seaman rearranged the electrons to read: > > Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that > > but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files. > > I found that running as root via sudo meant that firefox created a > root-owned ~/.mozilla/firefox directory -- so as soon as I tried to > run it under my own UID, that lead to being constantly asked to create > a new profile, failing to do that and then crashing as observed. Interesting. The 15:29 checkin by marcus said "The warning about running as root first is no longer needed since the hack seems to work", so I didn't try it again. He was, apparently, wrong. Now, when I start it via sudo (rather than a "su -" and an exporting of the display), it starts up just fine. After a "chown -R" of the .mozilla directory to me, it starts fine as my userid, too. Weirdness. Thanks, everybody, for the replies! I really appreciate it. - Jamie