Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:56:10 -0800 From: Jim Johnson <jamesjoh@gmail.com> To: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox problem, FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <3879673004122218563badf8ad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200412221848.55412.ringworm@inbox.lv> References: <3879673004122218225925ef41@mail.gmail.com> <200412221848.55412.ringworm@inbox.lv>
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I did run it from an xterm, I just ran it through truss and figured out the problem. For some reason my ~/.mozilla directory was permed to root and not to my user account, anyway chown'ing it fixed that problem. Thanks for the quick response! -Jim On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:48:54 -0800, Michael C. Shultz <ringworm@inbox.lv> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:22 pm, Jim Johnson wrote: > > Hey all, I'm having an issue with Firefox. When I go to run it > > nothing at all happens. No error messages are displayed and no > > browser window pops open. This makes is pretty hard to troubleshoot > > anything. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could try? > > My ports are fully up-to-date as of about 20 hours ago and it built > > without a hitch. If this is the incorrect forum for asking such > > questions, please educate me with the correct e-mail address. > > Thanks! > > > > -Jim > > Did you try running it from an xterm? Try the following: > > firefox & > > and you should be able to see any messages on the term. By the > way I just updated my ports (with sysutils/portmanager) and built > firefox today on my 5.3 system and it ran fine... > > -Mike >
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