Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:47:20 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: adstro@stny.rr.com Subject: Re: Firefox 1.0PR1 Message-ID: <20041014014720.60e881e6@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <1097726448.31260.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <416C7A39.3080804@stny.rr.com> <20041012215853.4547585c@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <416CA152.8060701@wingfoot.org> <20041013224758.3b876b4e@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <1097726448.31260.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:00:48 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 23:47, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:30:26 -0400 > > Glenn Sieb <ges@wingfoot.org> wrote: > > > > > Vulpes Velox said the following on 10/12/2004 10:58 PM: > > > > > > >>Hey All: > > > >> > > > >>I have just built firefox 1.0PR1 from the ports and I cannot > > > >seem to> > > > >>install any extensions or themes. Has anyone else had these > > > >>problems, or have any solutions? > > > >> > > > >> > > > >Yeah, I have the same problem, plus I can't change any of the > > > >settings. Plus if I move ~/.mozilla, it wont start what so > > > >ever, but just kicks out the following... > > > >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > > >Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client! > > > > > > > > > > > Wasn't there a thing where Firefox had to be first run by root? > > > > > > Dunno if this is related..? > > > > Actually finally figured it out earlier today... for some reason > > it needed xhost +127.0.0.1 or something like that ran if there was > > no~/.mozilla > > First, there is an entry pertaining to upgrading Firefox in > /usr/ports/UPDATING. Second, there are known issues with Firefox > and linuxpluginwrapper. If you have lpw installed, you will see: I don't have it installed and got that when running it from a non-root user. > firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X > server:0.0. > > When you start Firefox 1.0PR for the first time. Subsequent > invocations should be okay. However, for best operation, you are > encouraged to uninstall this plug-in, upgrade to 1.0PR, and start > the browser once. Afterward, you can reinstall the plug-in. > > This isn't necessary, though. You can simply follow the > instructions in UPDATING, then start Firefox twice. The second > time, and all subsequent times, it should start up just fine. They did not work... > I have not found any reliable workaround for the unimplemented X > function except for temporarily disabling lpw. Adding 127.0.0.1 to > the xhost database does not fix the problem. Did for what what happening here.
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