> At 09:55 05/26/2005 -0700, Serge Rey wrote: > >hi all, > > > >i'm trying to resuscitate an old laptop (vaio z505) that i had loaned > >out for a few years and which just came home. > > > >still works like a charm, but i'm running into a snag with firefox. i > >can only get it running using: sudo firefox > >if i try to start it as a regular user, i get nothing - no errors just > >back to a prompt. > > > >i'm thinking this is a permissions problem with how firefox gets > >installed but i'm hand waving here. > > > >i'm running a mixed unstable-testing debian. > > > >any pointers would be appreciated. > > Check the ownership of the .mozilla directory for the user. I had this same > problem and for some reason my .mozilla directory was owned by root. > > I found this out by running the program with strace and seeing where it quit. > > Gus
thanks to all who answered. gus had the fix for my case. s. -- Serge Rey http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/rey.html I think there is a word market for about five computers. - Thomas J. Watson, Chairman IBM, 1943
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