From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 00:05:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDFD16A409 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:05:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dakfreebsd@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9840413C481 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dakfreebsd@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so345897ugh for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:05:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=EmC5hg92TPu4Qin3O8eiZpOpluwZvAV6pGDiKnj1tELDy8D2AAdLQPhT1sLX/eFi0hFNiny4LIBmcfER5nUS+zzBakbPC73u4JkGkRdYv3SvWqgIFFv+luMv99LJAzTkENcug82RvTXUfR4val9Xwc2DHxbw1O28Q3AU5ys2d8w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=JI0pKwGhkAdA73Sv1tVt6N6ejpiHS46ZE9IeRytioQqa5/P/8TUoA67EdtZUzDohwKMGD1gqMrqZ42GJZeFqD80rGgA9e9nV2XklHuj7oTIYQA6Fdm6SF5NaZhdtFu6tLJZUAY+mhnHYhZj1+0u8HrJ1+HeePPIRq5sGgCyg/L4= Received: by 10.115.23.12 with SMTP id a12mr1958140waj.1173225909870; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.179.15 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:05:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5df74baa0703061605of9f660o87430e208b574fac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:05:09 -0500 From: "DAK GHATIKACHALAM" To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" In-Reply-To: <770699.33265.qm@web53414.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <770699.33265.qm@web53414.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox only runs as root--help! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:05:17 -0000 On 3/2/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum 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. I had the same issue when I first made firefox, probability is the your $HOME/.mozilla directory is owned by root with only or no read permissions to other users. firefox read. creates all of its data in that directory by default, so you may want to login as root and do find / -name ".mozilla" -type d -exec ls -ld {} \; That will show all the directories that are .mozilla once you figured which your $HOME's .mozilla you can issue chown user:group .mozilla directory and then your firefox may start normally Best regards DAK 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 > > > --------------------------------- > Finding fabulous fares is fun. > Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and > hotel bargains. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >