Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without any output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've tried, i.e. : 1.5.0.8 package on the 6.2-RELEASE CD, 2.0.0.1 both from packages and ports and 2.0.0.1 Linux version from ports. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Try running it once as root. I know this is required in most of the 1.x versions, but I didn't think it was in 2.0. Anyway, something like this should suffice: su cp /home/$user/.Xauthority /root firefox JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Original Message From: Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:37:16 PM Subject: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without any output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've tried, i.e. : 1.5.0.8 package on the 6.2-RELEASE CD, 2.0.0.1 both from packages and ports and 2.0.0.1 Linux version from ports. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Firas. What window manager are you running? Firefox was crashing on KDE; so I tried it on windowmaker, where it works fine. Granted, that's not a good solution; but it may help isolate the real problem. I hope this helps. Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Problem solved. For some reason, my ~/.mozilla/ was owned by root so just chown'ing it did the trick. Thanks for the help. Firas On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:16, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, Firas Kraiem wrote: Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without any output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've tried, i.e. : 1.5.0.8 package on the 6.2-RELEASE CD, 2.0.0.1 both from packages and ports and 2.0.0.1 Linux version from ports. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Try running it once as root. I know this is required in most of the 1.x versions, but I didn't think it was in 2.0. Anyway, something like this should suffice: su cp /home/$user/.Xauthority /root firefox JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Firas Kraiem Pro writes: Problem solved. For some reason, my ~/.mozilla/ was owned by root so just chown'ing it did the trick. Thanks for the help. In return, please file a PR with Firefox. This sounds like the kind of thing it ought to print an error message for. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to run without problems but when I try to run it, no joy. If I try to run it from a terminal, I just get thrown back to the prompt without any output. This occurs with all the Firefox versions I've tried, i.e. : 1.5.0.8 package on the 6.2-RELEASE CD, 2.0.0.1 both from packages and ports and 2.0.0.1 Linux version from ports. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Firas. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
