Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:42:34 +0100 From: "Frederic Chardon" <chardon.frederic@gmail.com> To: neilmunro@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox crashing Message-ID: <8e73e8440710300442v52a3957fm84aa0136fbb700e6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8e73e8440710300337x4b5d616ep836d38a2c1895c6@mail.gmail.com> References: <8e73e8440710300337x4b5d616ep836d38a2c1895c6@mail.gmail.com>
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2007/10/30, Frederic Chardon <chardon.frederic@gmail.com>: > > ---------- Message transféré ---------- > > From: "Neil Munro" <neilmunro@gmail.com> > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:43:02 +0000 > > Subject: Firefox crashing > > Hey, I have recently gotten FreeBSD working for the first time ever. I am > > very happy with it, however there are a few things I have having trouble > > getting to work, firefox is my main issue atm, it got installed along with > > Gnome 2.20 as you would expect however when I tried to run it nothing > > happened, now while I am new to FreeBSD I am not new to *Nix systems, so I > > used a tip I picked up from adjusting portupgrade to use BDB4 and ran 'make > > config' in the firefox ports directory, I enabled logging and debug etc just > > to see if it could provide any useful output as to what might be the cause > > of firefox crashing. It worked, and attached is the log of what happens when > > I try to start Firefox. > > > > I am cvsup'ing now and will try recompiling firefox again, see if that makes > > a difference, but I have been playing with FreeBSD all week and not gotten > > Firefox to work yet. > > > > Thanks > > Niadh > > Hello > I had problems also to get firefox running, maybe it will help: > first of all, firefox is very sensitive to optimization options and I > had to keep conservative flags in make.conf (never had a crash during > compilation but impossible to launch later) > second, there is a problem of ownership: the first time you launch it, > it creates a directory in home directory, but since the directory > owner is root you don't have read-write access and can't launch as > user. Try to sudo the first launch to see if it works, if it does > chmod rw the home/.firefox directory to user (not sure about the name > of directory, I'm not on my machine now). Maybe the directory is > created under /root, you must move it to home and chmod it. It worked > for me, hope it helps. > Fred > I meant chown, but I'm sure you corrected yourself ;-) Fredhelp
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