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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>
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Subject: Re: FireFox not starting in 6.0
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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