Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:56:11 -0400 From: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> To: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firefox doesn't show up Message-ID: <20050503125611.3e986827@localhost> In-Reply-To: <426F28D9.8080209@ec.rr.com> References: <20050331134642.34520.qmail@web51008.mail.yahoo.com> <424D090B.2000601@munat.com> <20050426191032.00d9e3ae@localhost> <426F28D9.8080209@ec.rr.com>
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:53:29 -0400 jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> wrote: > Trey Sizemore wrote: > > >On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:40:43 -0800 > >Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see > >>if it prints errors when it fails. > >> > >>b > >> > >> > > > >My Firefox will no longer work as a normal user (no page loads and > >buttons are unresponsive), although it does as root. Starting from > >the command line produces the following output (both as root and my > >normal user account): > > > >trey@salamander~> firefox > >LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/compat/linux/ > >usr/ local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so [Shared > >object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "nppdf.so"] *** Failed to > >load overlay chrome://useragentswitcher/content/menu.xul > > > >Any ideas on how to fix this? > > > > > > > > > Looks like your adobe plugin is a linux port. You need > emulators/linux_base-8. But you shouldn't unless you have a linux > binary. I didn't see a adobe plugin in the ports system so I am > guessing this is where you went wrong. Did you tell firefox to > install a linux or unix plugin for pdfs or acrobat reader? Remove > the adobe plugin and see if firefox works right. Also did you > install the native firefox from ports? How do I remove the offending plugin? I've tried to remove and reinstall Firefox 1.0.3, but the same behavior occurs. The root user can open and use firefox, but my normal account cannot. -- Cheers, Trey ---- Bumper sticker: "All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British manufacture" FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386 i386 GENERIC 12:55PM up 9 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.17, 0.13
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