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Subject: Re: Firefox won't start
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* "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org>:
> > 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.)

Nope, 'find /usr -perm 700' and 'find /usr -perm 600' show up nothing
unusual. Just three files from xdm.
Still no firefox :(


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Fridtjof Busse
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