From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 23:39:16 2005 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 8939216A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:39:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF62A43D2F for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:39:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.150?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 2005 23:39:15 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Fridtjof Busse In-Reply-To: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1113003554.817.2.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:39:14 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't start 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: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:39:16 -0000 On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:32, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > Hi > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4RC, everything works so fine. > Just firefox won't work (running xfce), neither the package nor the > port. I can only start it as root, under a normal user nothing happens > at all. /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox quits after a second and no firefox. > How can I fix this? > Thanks. At a guess, you may have created some configuration files owned by root the first time you started it. Try hunting them down and deleting them, and start firefox from a user account again. Also try running firefox from a command line in an xterm, if you haven't already done so, and see if there are any helpful error messages.