From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 09:59:29 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 2B90B16A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:59:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [204.89.131.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E66743D1F for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:59:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njt@dune.geekisp.com) Received: (qmail 15649 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2005 09:59:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (192.168.4.35) by mail.geekisp.com with QMQP; 9 Apr 2005 09:59:27 -0000 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 05:59:49 -0400 From: "N.J. Thomas" To: Fridtjof Busse Message-ID: <20050409095949.GB9427@ayvali.org> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 09:59:29 -0000 * Fridtjof Busse [2005-04-08 18:32:49 +0200]: > 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. Had same problem under 5.3. Tracked it down to permissions problems when I gave root a new shell (with umask 077 instead of 022). Run find on /usr and see if there are any files/dirs with perms of 600/700 that look like they should be public. (I believe in my case it was some gconf dirs.) hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo