Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:55:55 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't start Message-ID: <200504091655.55988.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <20050409131550.2bafaffb.fbusse@gmx.de> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> <20050409095949.GB9427@ayvali.org> <20050409131550.2bafaffb.fbusse@gmx.de>
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On Saturday 09 April 2005 11:15, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > * "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 :( I'd suggest you to run firefox under gdb or with truss. So far I had quite a few programs not starting up properly and in many cases it would exit just after accessing a file and then you know where to look. Or it gets a signal. Daniela -- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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