From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 21:25:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4725A16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:25:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (rrcs-west-24-199-45-54.biz.rr.com [24.199.45.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A8043D31 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:24:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4330FD04C; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04166-10; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.199.45.54] (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646A6FD012; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:24:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean McNeil To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" In-Reply-To: <1087679838.1042.35.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com> References: <1087545571.70951.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1087679838.1042.35.camel@localhost.muc.eu.mscsoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087680241.10847.4.camel@server.mcneil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:24:01 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox - *** loading the extensions datasource X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:25:10 -0000 On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 14:17, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > Am Fr, den 18.06.2004 schrieb Sean McNeil um 9:59: > > OK, > > > > So I have firefox working as root and it doesn't print anything when I > > run it. > > > > As my regular user, it print the > > > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > > > and then core dumps. I think I have some old cruft somewhere, but I > > Nobody reads release notes nowadays, I guess. From the page at > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/ in section " > Known Issues": > > * If Firefox 0.9 is placed in a location with limited access > privileges, it should be run by a user with access to that > location first, so that all initial startup files are generated. > There may be issues still where if a restricted-access user is > the first to run the app, these files may not be generated > properly and Firefox may enter an infinite restart loop. This > will be fixed in a future release. > > Running firefox as root once did the trick for me. Nobody reads the full thread before they comment these days, I guess :) I did exactly that and it did NOT work for me. I had to do some extra things with deleting some directories before it worked. Now, it only "sort of" works as I have a good deal of additional problems. The first issue I had was that cc is broken for amd64 and thunks. I found a fix for that. Secondly, I got the same core dump whether I ran with root or not. Third, once I got root to work my user account did NOT work and I got this message whereas I didn't get it running as root. Cheers, Sean