From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 04:35:15 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 963D816A408 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 04:35:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulette_mcgee@yahoo.com) Received: from web62309.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web62309.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.75.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FC4013C4A7 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 04:35:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulette_mcgee@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 84607 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Mar 2007 04:35:14 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=NYUOcG2gcRc/unnFkfP0iHb5lLLi86ToEpLwr8t48VSSTnARGbVaaeLlY/nTH1bsxhnCqz7kFrgfXZCMxfcJNFfSanSccqjHW3sJ25VldeSa0igSeE2YvENii2dVZ+Wxcs7M0XaNYgtWDSUMDPF2kHrIsO0nRt+9Ru9P7T6R4t8=; X-YMail-OSG: fml2ta4VM1mkNqK3m6q08hJnU.Zpd6xBN0VcgSSZ41Pbn.Uk3u4E5a7xa8wOyMcOlHRf8y9J28v_u8meo3.xnlgT1aRkcz4pOOTW2JnsT0victF7to6rPwWu33IrZuFL Received: from [68.164.228.157] by web62309.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:35:14 PST Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:35:14 -0800 (PST) From: Paulette McGee To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <770699.33265.qm@web53414.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <684714.83355.qm@web62309.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: 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 04:35:15 -0000 --- "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > What happens if you type "firefox" on the command line as a normal user? Paulette McGee ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com