From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 23:41:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web9302.mail.yahoo.com (web9302.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEF1337B422 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20000830064046.75426.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.29.119.198] by web9302.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:40:46 PDT Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 23:40:46 -0700 (PDT) From: qcentury Subject: Can't launch netscape except as root To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm baffled. I installed netscape 4.73 from ftp.freebsd.org using /stand/sysinstall (logged on as root of course) and launch it from the kde desktop. HOWEVER, when I set up home directories for other users, kde launches just fine for all users, but netscape aborts with the following message: Bus error (core dumped) And console messages (viewed after exiting x) indicated things like multiple occurrences of "SID could not be read" and "netscape exited on signal 10." I tried going recursively into all directories that might be involved in launch of netscape (/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/X11R6, etc) and making sure anything mentioning netscape was world-readable and -executable, but to no avail. I can only launch netscape from kde brought up by running xinit as root, or by su'ing to root from the other user desktops just to launch netscape. Either way, I am told it is dangerous to surf the web as root. What went wrong? Can I fix it? Do I have to just pkg-delete and reinstall netscape? Would love to use this frustrating mishap as a chance to learn something profound about how Unix and its applications work... Can you help? Regards and much appreciation for your time, DF __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message