Ok, solved it : unmerge, delete every sing reference to firebird (even .phoenix in /root and /home/$User, condolences for your bookmarks, remerge. Should work. There is also a thread on the gentoo forum dealing with the problem :
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67840&highlight=firebird+chrome HTH, Jonathan C. On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2003 08:22 pm, Alan wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > > > On Sunday 20 July 2003 06:20 pm, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 01:32, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > after I installed quicktools in Firebird, I am only able to run > > > > > Firebird as root. As normal user it won't start any longer. Is this a > > > > > known problem? How can I uninstall quicktools? > > > > > > > > When mozilla only runs as root, it often indicates a problem with file > > > > or directory permissions (in my experience anyway) > > > > > > > > run strace on it, you'll find out what it's dying on > > > > > > Hmm..., it's not dying, it kind of hangs, waiting for something to > > > happen, I believe. Does this make sense to you?: > > > ------------------------------- > > > > [snip] > > > > > rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079e10, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4005ac68}, {SIG_DFL}, > > > 8) = 0 > > > wait4(-1, > > > > I don't think it's a problem with quicktools. I just installed the > > mozilla-firebird-cvs ebuild today and I'm getting the same symptoms, and > > the same strace (or similar anyway, the end wait4 is the same anyway). > > Interesting! Can you start it as root? I could. Now I unmerged Firebird, > deleted the Firebird directory in /usr/lib/ and am about to emerge it again. > The strange thing is, it worked just perfectly before I added quicktools. -- Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. -- David Letterman
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