Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:05:34 +0200 From: Vladimir Terziev <vlady@gbservices.biz> To: Vladimir Egorin <vladimir@math.uic.edu> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 1.5 won't start on FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <20051207100534.37c04b7a.vlady@gbservices.biz> In-Reply-To: <20051206211153.GA69549@math.uic.edu> References: <20051206164125.0a10a206.vlady@gbservices.biz> <20051206211153.GA69549@math.uic.edu>
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That's not the solution, since i ran it as the user who owns the whole package, e.g. the user has permissions to write in the package tree. I mean the package has been installed into a custom PREFIX, not /usr/local Vladimir On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:11:53 -0600 Vladimir Egorin <vladimir@math.uic.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:41:25PM +0200, Vladimir Terziev wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > i have problems starting the latest release version of firefox - 1.5 on FreeBSD 5.4 (FreeBSD host.domain.tld 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Sep 16 17:19:46 EEST 2005 root@host.domain.tld:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/WORKSTATION i386). The package has been built from the firefox port, e.g. firefox-1.5_4,1 . > > > > The problems occure when i try to start the firefox. It attempts to start, but after certain amount time just returns the command prompt without any error. > > > > Do you have any ideas how to fix the problem ? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Vladimir > > > > Try running it as root for the first time. When (if) it starts, exit firefox > and start it from your user shell. > -- > Vladimir
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