Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:18:03 -0400 From: otzinger@allstream.net To: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1 Message-ID: <20040618211803.28e276ec@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040617132154.A3F6410959B@macintosh.inf.ed.ac.uk> References: <20040617132154.A3F6410959B@macintosh.inf.ed.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:21:54 +0100 (BST) Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > # firefox <<-- we no longer need to launch 1st time as root, but... > > (firefox-bin:87415): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Presumably you don't have DISPLAY set when you're running as root. hello, richard. well, i don't know what the DISPLAY variable is or where to set it, nor am i conscious of ever having so done (but i'm busy googling it to learn more... :) in the meantime, you managed, nevertheless, to hit upon the problem. i was trying to install from a virtual term within X (where $DISPLAY comes in?) and recall that i recently changed my su habits -- now 'su -l' instead of simple 'su'. the upshot is that when i tried to run firefox as root, without $DISPLAY set, it didn't work the mojo it was supposed to. after i realized that this might be the problem, i tried a simple 'su' and firefox has since been happily interpreting html for me. thanks for everyone's help on this! > > > firefox > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > I have the same problem, but with an extra message: > > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so > [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: > Undefined symbol "_vt$16nsQueryInterface"]*** loading the extensions > datasource LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so > [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: > Undefined symbol "_vt$16nsQueryInterface"]*** loading the extensions > datasource > > -- Richard >
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