Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 06:43:29 +0200 From: Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't start Message-ID: <20050409064329.3439161f.fbusse@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <1113003554.817.2.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> <1113003554.817.2.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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* Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>: > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4RC, everything works so fine. > > Just firefox won't work (running xfce), neither the package nor the > > port. I can only start it as root, under a normal user nothing > > happens at all. /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox quits after a second and no > > firefox. How can I fix this? > > Thanks. > > At a guess, you may have created some configuration files owned by > root the first time you started it. Try hunting them down and > deleting them, and start firefox from a user account again. At first run, I tried to start firefox under the local user of course. When that wouldn't work , I searched Google and found an old bug about similiar behavior that suggested running firefox as root the first time. Didn't help, so I'm stuck since it's uite some time I used FreeBSD. > Also try running firefox from a command line in an xterm, if you > haven't already done so, and see if there are any helpful error > messages. I'm starting it from commandline. It doesn't print any errors and exits after a second. Under root, it starts and gives me debugging messages. -- Fridtjof Busse BOFH Excuse #122: because Bill Gates is a Jehovah's witness and so nothing can work on St. Swithin's day.
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