On Saturday 09 April 2005 11:15, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > * "N.J. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4RC, everything works so fine. Just > > > firefox won't work (running xfce), neither the package nor the > > > port. I can only start it as root, under a normal user nothing > > > happens at all. /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox quits after a second and no > > > firefox. > > > > Had same problem under 5.3. Tracked it down to permissions problems > > when I gave root a new shell (with umask 077 instead of 022). > > > > Run find on /usr and see if there are any files/dirs with perms of > > 600/700 that look like they should be public. (I believe in my case it > > was some gconf dirs.) > > Nope, 'find /usr -perm 700' and 'find /usr -perm 600' show up nothing > unusual. Just three files from xdm. > Still no firefox :(
I'd suggest you to run firefox under gdb or with truss. So far I had quite a few programs not starting up properly and in many cases it would exit just after accessing a file and then you know where to look. Or it gets a signal. Daniela -- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
