From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 04:43:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A887F16A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:43:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from excalibur.fbunet.de (excalibur.fbunet.de [80.190.243.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307C943D1D for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:43:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbusse@gmx.de) Received: from artus.fbunet.de (port-212-202-40-81.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.40.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by excalibur.fbunet.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C8419073 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 06:43:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 06:43:29 +0200 From: Fridtjof Busse To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.7 (GTK+ 2.6.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Firefox won't start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 04:43:31 -0000 * Mike Jeays : > > 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.