From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 21:06:38 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 9B98216A412 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:06:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fkraiem@enib.fr) Received: from smtp20.orange.fr (smtp20.orange.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64ABE13C442 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:06:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fkraiem@enib.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2023.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 75E581C000AB; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:06:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from ana.fkraiem.org (ABordeaux-256-1-43-70.w90-11.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.11.86.70]) by mwinf2023.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 017111C000A3; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:06:37 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20070117210637597.017111C000A3@mwinf2023.orange.fr From: Firas Kraiem Pro To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:06:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200701172037.16597.fkraiem@enib.fr> <200701171516.49195.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200701171516.49195.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701172206.32175.fkraiem@enib.fr> Cc: John Nielsen Subject: Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE 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, 17 Jan 2007 21:06:38 -0000 Problem solved. For some reason, my ~/.mozilla/ was owned by root so just chown'ing it did the trick. Thanks for the help. Firas On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:16, you wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: > > Hi to all of you ! > > > > The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install > > seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try > > to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without > > any output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've tried, i.e. : > > 1.5.0.8 package on the 6.2-RELEASE CD, 2.0.0.1 both from packages and > > ports and 2.0.0.1 Linux version from ports. Any help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > Try running it once as root. I know this is required in most of the 1.x > versions, but I didn't think it was in 2.0. Anyway, something like this > should suffice: > > su > cp /home/$user/.Xauthority /root > firefox > > JN