From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 15:38:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 750D116A43A for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:38:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay0.av-mx.com (relay0.av-mx.com [137.118.16.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3295C43D4C for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:38:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.60] (HELO mx2.av-mx.com) by relay0.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 218435902 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:38:27 -0500 Received: (qmail 24590 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2006 15:38:27 -0000 Received: from dsl30202.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.117.202) by 0 with SMTP; 31 Mar 2006 15:38:27 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.117.202 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl30202.ywave.com Message-ID: <442D4CF1.3030504@ywave.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:38:25 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060330) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: W.Soo@bom.gov.au References: <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <20060330235303.GA461@math.jussieu.fr> <200603301918.20035.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <200603311346.20633.yuanjue@yuanjue.net> <442CC3BA.5050902@bom.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <442CC3BA.5050902@bom.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yuan Jue , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:38:33 -0000 Wee-Sern Soo wrote: > http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues > > It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, > the first time. > > > Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: >> On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: >> >>> This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before >>> and what to try. >>> >>> Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program and >>> start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working >>> fine. >>> >>> >> >> works for me too. many thanks :) >> >> A workaround that the port could use is given on that page.... "If Firefox 1.5.0.1 is installed on a multi-user system in a location which is not writable by users, Firefox must be run once by a privileged user. If this is not desirable, an empty file must be created in the following directory: /extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest" Later, Micah