Greg Cornell wrote:
Hi List,I'm having trouble with firefox on a RHEL 5.2 client workstation (fully up to date). It doesn't run as a normal user but runs fine as root. When I run the firefox command as a normal user, there aren't any messages displayed, it just waits for about 4-5 minutes and then gives me the prompt back. I've tried Google, Red Hat's knowledgebase and bugzilla, and haven't been able to find anything helpful. I ran 'strace firefox' but didn't find anything in the output that looked useful (to me at least, but I'm not an expert there). I attached the strace output for any of you that might what to look through it. I also ran 'ltrace firefox' which returned: ltrace: Can't open ELF file "/usr/bin/firefox" but the permissions seem fine to me: -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:bin_t /usr/bin/firefox Any help you can give will be appreciated. Greg Cornell
/usr/bin/firefox is a shell script, so you need to tell strace to follow all forked sub process.
I do strace like so strace -fvvvto strace-firefox.log -s 2048 /usr/bin/firefox Then look through strace-firefox.logThe strace file you sent looks like it starts the actual binary /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox and which dies right away and returns as much to the shell script. The -f would allow you to see what it does between forking and returning.
Hugh
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