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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