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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:41:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fwd: Re: Firefox only runs as root--help!
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And i can't even spell "freebsd.org" right. Not my day.

Jen

 
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:40:09 -0800 (PST)
From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Firefox only runs as root--help!
To: Jeremy Gransden <jeremy.gransden@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-question@freebsg.org
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Jeremy Gransden <jeremy.gransden@gmail.com> wrote: 

On 3/2/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271828@yahoo.com> wrote: This is a resend of something i sent to the freebsd-gnome list a few days
ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real problem, so i hope
no one minds.

I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed Gnome  2.16 and other things, including Firefox 2.0, from Ports.

Firefox only runs as root. Every time. I Googled and saw that in an early
version there was a problem that it had to be run the _first_ time as root
but after that it was OK, but thats not the problem here--it ONLY runs as 
root all the time. If I type "firefox" on the command line it
just immediately returns to the command line, no error messages
of any sort, nothing in /var/log/messages.

When run as root it seems to be fine. The binary has execute 
permissions for everyone.

What do i need to be doing?

Thanks!

Jen
 

Hi Jen, 

what are the permissions on .mozilla  in your home directory. 

jeremy
 

Oh, g#d...

/me hangs head in shame and embarrassment.

Thank you. So sorry to bother the list with this. I thought i had been
clever to check the permissions on the binary :-(

Thank you Jeremy!

Jen

 
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   Jeremy Gransden <jeremy.gransden@gmail.com> wrote:

   On 3/2/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[1]bg271828@yahoo.com> wrote:

     This is a resend of something i sent to the freebsd-gnome list a
     few days
     ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real problem, so i
     hope
     no one minds.
     I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed Gnome 2.16 and
     other things, including Firefox 2.0, from Ports.
     Firefox only runs as root. Every time. I Googled and saw that in an
     early
     version there was a problem that it had to be run the _first_ time
     as root
     but after that it was OK, but thats not the problem here--it ONLY
     runs as
     root all the time. If I type "firefox" on the command line it
     just immediately returns to the command line, no error messages
     of any sort, nothing in /var/log/messages.
     When run as root it seems to be fine. The binary has execute
     permissions for everyone.
     What do i need to be doing?
     Thanks!
     Jen


   Hi Jen,
   what are the permissions on .mozilla  in your home directory.
   jeremy

   Oh, g#d...
   /me hangs head in shame and embarrassment.
   Thank you. So sorry to bother the list with this. I thought i had been
   clever to check the permissions on the binary :-(
   Thank you Jeremy!
   Jen
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