Re: starting FF from command line...

2016-10-18 Thread bruce
hey guys... Ok. logged out as user foo.. which got back to "root" did a su - foo.. which got back to the term as the "foo" user.. was then able to do "firefox" from the cmd line. which fired up firefox. O.. making a bit o' progress.. The tests ran as expected.. ... Now, here's my next

Re: starting FF from command line...

2016-10-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/18/2016 03:11 PM, bruce wrote: Yes. My bad, The child term, is started by firing up the term as root, and then doing a su into the foo user. At which point, the test then does a firefox -p Just "su user" or "su - user"? Although either way I think you're going to run into issues

Re: starting FF from command line...

2016-10-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/18/2016 03:11 PM, bruce wrote: > Hi Samuel. > > Yes. My bad, The child term, is started by firing up the term as root, > and then doing a su into the foo user. At which point, the test then > does a >firefox -p Make sure you do one of the following commands to do the su: su -

Re: starting FF from command line...

2016-10-18 Thread bruce
Hi Samuel. Yes. My bad, The child term, is started by firing up the term as root, and then doing a su into the foo user. At which point, the test then does a firefox -p On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/18/2016 12:57 PM, bruce wrote: >> >> Test

Re: starting FF from command line...

2016-10-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/18/2016 12:57 PM, bruce wrote: Test laptop. login as root, start FF from the menu no prob. Start a term as user foo. Try to start FF from the term, and get gconf errors. How are you starting the terminal? It sounds like you are root, but trying to run a terminal using a different user.