From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 18:28:43 2004 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 6D20B16A4D1 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:28:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47DC43D2D for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:28:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i5HIRdxJ000924 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:27:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i5HIRdFB000923; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:27:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:27:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Lewis Thompson Message-ID: <20040617182739.GA763@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Lewis Thompson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040617173609.GB31413@qwest.net> <20040617180450.GA16862@fajita.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040617180450.GA16862@fajita.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.4 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:27:40 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040612, clamav-milter version 0.72a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 0.9 Port 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: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:28:43 -0000 --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:04:50PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote: > > The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all > > I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: > >=20 > > *** loading the extensions datasource > >=20 > > The browser never actually starts and that message keeps repeating until > > I ^C out of it. >=20 > Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that > but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files. I found that running as root via sudo meant that firefox created a root-owned ~/.mozilla/firefox directory -- so as soon as I tried to run it under my own UID, that lead to being constantly asked to create a new profile, failing to do that and then crashing as observed. Doing a % sudo chown -R matthew:matthew ~/.mozilla fixed the problems and Firefox is running very nicely now, although occasionally some unknown thing triggers it to dump core when quitting. Obviously (do I really need to say this?) substitute your own usernamed and default group in the above. Most ways of becoming root won't alter the ${HOME} environment variable -- other than a full 'su -' or logging into the console as root, so I'd expect this doing nasty things to file ownerships to be quite common. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA0eKbiD657aJF7eIRAtNVAJ94agnYBSC0XGtxOE83VhPv7TNitwCgtvub +1hZ6PaMmQfZtUHC1HRV1Bk= =zuyq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5--