From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 03:04:34 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 C3ACB16A402 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 03:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: from web53414.mail.yahoo.com (web53414.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B90D13C442 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 03:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 35425 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Mar 2007 03:04:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=OA/E7Vvhdvcwfb/Ir8+OwcJHSlM6bug2u2DoqHRRY0Tt05GqZkImjGjYZgfJExKzYIZL4Hbr60yK7pxqjDKI2xTO6gUWdaCBgkMoZ5jub1BgeoDrOJ+ScnQilBk9ObI4ly6nDojB92n647VR5a9n+epkj19eb6/l72Z+ackPGsw=; X-YMail-OSG: nNsthHEVM1nOYb9uHQe03TMokEZ8GgZAxhthXx6dK.5j8eePldYqGqv7xP8taOYQMdY9VEuHEVVWitbkem.zw4FununamPkLIA_lDdeKAS6O2qbs_jocWXR07IcOVAcfnl2x55sd0nU4CNtW.9VfN87DWg-- Received: from [66.108.252.99] by web53414.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:04:33 PST Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:04:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <770699.33265.qm@web53414.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Firefox only runs as root--help! 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: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:04:34 -0000 This is a resend of something i sent to the freebsd-gnome list a few days ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real problem, so i hope no one minds. I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed Gnome 2.16 and other things, including Firefox 2.0, from Ports. Firefox only runs as root. Every time. I Googled and saw that in an early version there was a problem that it had to be run the _first_ time as root but after that it was OK, but thats not the problem here--it ONLY runs as root all the time. If I type "firefox" on the command line it just immediately returns to the command line, no error messages of any sort, nothing in /var/log/messages. When run as root it seems to be fine. The binary has execute permissions for everyone. What do i need to be doing? Thanks! Jen --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains.