Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:41:49 -0500 From: Jamie Novak <novak@qwest.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 0.9 Port Message-ID: <20040617184149.GE31413@qwest.net> In-Reply-To: <20040617182739.GA763@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040617173609.GB31413@qwest.net> <20040617180450.GA16862@fajita.org> <20040617182739.GA763@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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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
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