On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:49:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:35:46PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:50:26AM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > > So, I didn't intend to use it as a web browser, merely to test what my > > > > error was. > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:04:42PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > running things as root should never even be on your list of things to > > > try when something is broken. this isn't Windows NT. > > > > > > > I agree with Ethan here. > > > > The most you should do is run the program as the user who owns the files. > > If that is root, then chown it to some other user. > > such things are not needed. man strace > > strace galeon 2>&1 | egrep 'EACCES|EPERM' > > more likly then permission problems is leaving cruft in your old > ~/.galeon, its well known that you have to rm -rf the config files and > such that go with galeon and mozilla after upgrades since they change > things in incompatible ways frequently. > > root's ~/ happens to be /root not /home/yourluser >
Then the correct test would be to create another user and run the app as that user and see it it works. But you already know that Ethan...
