From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 28 14:31:02 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C3DA70601 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:31:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from feeder.usenet4all.se (1-1-1-38a.far.sth.bostream.se [82.182.32.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 567A2101D for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:30:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (testbox.usenet4all.se [10.0.0.3]) by feeder.usenet4all.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id u0SE6UwC015485; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:06:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Subject: Re: thunderbird does not start if user is not member of "wheel" group To: Trust_No_1 , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <56A4B16F.2050707@libero.it> From: Bernt Hansson Message-ID: <56AA2075.8060500@bananmonarki.se> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:06:45 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56A4B16F.2050707@libero.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:31:03 -0000 On 2016-01-24 12:11, Trust_No_1 via freebsd-questions wrote: > Hello everybody. > sorry for the stupid question, but I'm facing a strange (for me) problem. > Let me explain: > I have a nice FreeBSD workstation (running FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p10) > that works very well for me. > > On this ws I have two users (say user1 and user2), but only one of them > (user1) is in the wheel group. > The second user is just in it's own group because I do not use it to > administer the ws. > So I have: > > root@dukefleed:~ # groups user1 > user1 wheel > > root@dukefleed:~ # groups user2 > users > > If I launch thunderbird with user1 all is OK but, if I try to start > thunderbird as user2, I receive the following error: > > user2@dukefleed:~ % thunderbird > Could not find the Mozilla runtime. > > No matter if I try to launch it via the full path, cd into > /usr/local/bin,... it does not start. > > The problem disappear if I add user2 to the wheel group. > Providing that I could add user2 to the wheel group and solve the > problem, I would like to know why I have this behavior. > > By the way: on the same ws, firefox DOES start without problems for both > the two users, and in particular (for user2) it starts even if I do NOT > add it to the wheel group. > > Sorry but I googled a lot without finding any link to a solution... > > Do you have any ideas? > > I use thunderbird 38.5.0 > > Thank you very much and kind regards. > > Mauro. > This is from my testbox bernt@testbox:~ % whereis thunderbird thunderbird: /usr/local/bin/thunderbird /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird bernt@testbox:~ % file /usr/local/bin/thunderbird /usr/local/bin/thunderbird: symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird