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Date:      Sat, 3 Dec 2005 13:48:23 -0500
From:      Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>
To:        "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FireFox not starting in 6.0
Message-ID:  <20051203184823.GA18894@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051203043336.34840.qmail@web53411.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20051203043336.34840.qmail@web53411.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:33:36PM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> i finally am getting started with 6.0, after a lot of
> time of installation. Most things are going well but
> the wierdest problem:
> i cant get FireFox to start! It built fine, no errors,
> but it just doesnt start.
> 
> There arent really anymore details i can give. It
> doesnt matter if I click the FF icon in Gnome, or type
> 'firefox' on the commandline.
> (There's no output from doing that:
> 
> $ firefox
> $ 

The same thing happens with mozilla. Apparently you have to
run it as root, and then it works fine--is anyone else seeing
this behavior? The /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox script etc. has
execute perms for any user. What's the tweak that needs to be
done so that a normal user can run it? I didn't see anything
in the package message.

Jesse Sheidlower



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