From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 18:24:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CAA16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:24:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1813043D41 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:24:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) j11IOQ6I030659; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:24:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3C1E36505; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:25:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:25:48 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050201182548.GB15135@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Mac Mason References: <20050201040730.GA15066@orthanc.st.hmc.edu> <200502011227.56991.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502011227.56991.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: Mac Mason Subject: Re: Mozilla and Firefox fail to start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:24:30 -0000 --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:27:56PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2005 11:07 pm, Mac Mason wrote: > > "So", I say to myself, "wouldn't it be nice to have firefox?" > > > > So, cd to the right place, make install clean... > > > > and then try to run it...and it thinks for two or three seconds, > > and hands me my prompt back. > > > > No core file, no browser, no error message. > > > > "Hm..." I think to myself. "...maybe mozilla will work." > > > > So, I repeat the same process. > > > > And mozilla won't start either; it does the very same thing. > > > > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, with the most-recent errata. > > > > Any ideas? IIRC, you have to start Mozilla and firefox the first time as root. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB/8msEnfvsMMhpyURAmFYAKCcmmAB6vl/ONoGyB4JNKIFwzMydACfVILT dnHLwfsUy2cKKk46VIOeqUE= =du8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R--