Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
It's a bug. Run it as root first. GH On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote: > I'm not really sure where to ask this, so I'm defaulting to the > questions list. > > I recently reinstalled my machine and am running 5.2.1-RELEASE. Now that > Firefox 0.9 has been released, I decided to try installing it. (Note: > Since this is a freshly reinstalled workstation, no previous versions of > Mozilla or Firefox were lying around. I also deleted the .mozilla and > .phoenix directories from my homedir backup before running this new > version.) > > The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all > I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > The browser never actually starts and that message keeps repeating until > I ^C out of it. > > Has anybody else encountered this since the new port came out? Previous > versions of Firefox on my old workstation (also of the 5.x line) worked > fine. > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
On 06/17, Matthew Seaman rearranged the electrons to read: > > Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that > > but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files. > > I found that running as root via sudo meant that firefox created a > root-owned ~/.mozilla/firefox directory -- so as soon as I tried to > run it under my own UID, that lead to being constantly asked to create > a new profile, failing to do that and then crashing as observed. Interesting. The 15:29 checkin by marcus said "The warning about running as root first is no longer needed since the hack seems to work", so I didn't try it again. He was, apparently, wrong. Now, when I start it via sudo (rather than a "su -" and an exporting of the display), it starts up just fine. After a "chown -R" of the .mozilla directory to me, it starts fine as my userid, too. Weirdness. Thanks, everybody, for the replies! I really appreciate it. - Jamie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:04:50PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote:
> > The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all
> > I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm:
> >
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> >
> > The browser never actually starts and that message keeps repeating until
> > I ^C out of it.
>
> Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that
> but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files.
I found that running as root via sudo meant that firefox created a
root-owned ~/.mozilla/firefox directory -- so as soon as I tried to
run it under my own UID, that lead to being constantly asked to create
a new profile, failing to do that and then crashing as observed.
Doing a
% sudo chown -R matthew:matthew ~/.mozilla
fixed the problems and Firefox is running very nicely now, although
occasionally some unknown thing triggers it to dump core when
quitting. Obviously (do I really need to say this?) substitute your
own usernamed and default group in the above.
Most ways of becoming root won't alter the ${HOME} environment
variable -- other than a full 'su -' or logging into the console as
root, so I'd expect this doing nasty things to file ownerships to be
quite common.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote: > The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all > I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > The browser never actually starts and that message keeps repeating until > I ^C out of it. Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files. -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- pgpk8qMEoxXPD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
On 06/17, Richard Tobin rearranged the electrons to read: > You have to run it as root first. Actually, according to the last checkin, that's no longer true. I did try that, though, to no avail. I'll try it again just to be sure. -Jamie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
> The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all > I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: You have to run it as root first. However, it then segmentation faults on most pages, so it's not a great advance. -- Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Firefox 0.9 Port
I'm not really sure where to ask this, so I'm defaulting to the questions list. I recently reinstalled my machine and am running 5.2.1-RELEASE. Now that Firefox 0.9 has been released, I decided to try installing it. (Note: Since this is a freshly reinstalled workstation, no previous versions of Mozilla or Firefox were lying around. I also deleted the .mozilla and .phoenix directories from my homedir backup before running this new version.) The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: *** loading the extensions datasource The browser never actually starts and that message keeps repeating until I ^C out of it. Has anybody else encountered this since the new port came out? Previous versions of Firefox on my old workstation (also of the 5.x line) worked fine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
