Firefox/Mozilla won't run as normal user [SOLVED]

Eliatamby · 2006-03-15 11:37:12

I have had this weird thing happen, where Mozilla and Firefox wont' work as a normal users. I fixed this temporarily by allowing non-group rwx access to /tmp, however somehow the problem has returned again.

Has anyone else had this? I'm not sure what log to check for errors either. Basically, is starts loading, then exits before starting

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-15 14:01:57

but /tmp should be world read/write...

[wael@nasreddine ~]$ ls -l / | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt   16 root root  4096 2006-03-15 14:01 tmp

you don't have it this way ?

giddygiddyBA · 2006-03-15 14:10:07

I have the same problem

firefox works as root but not a regular user... no errors are being spit out either so it looks like a permission problem

# ls -l /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.2K 2006-02-18 15:58 /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox*

scottro · 2006-03-15 15:39:12

Often, this has to do with the .mozilla (note the dot) in your home directory. Sometimes, it winds up being owned by root. Change the ownership to the user. (I don't know how old that cause and solution are, I could be wrong, or the directory might now be called .firefox)

However, see if there is a .mozilla or .firefox directory in your home directory and if it's owned by root rather than the user.

giddygiddyBA · 2006-03-15 15:51:54

seems to be fine here

-- no firefox folder

> ls -ld .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 5 yohoho users 184 2006-03-06 19:39 .mozilla/

>ls -l .mozilla
total 8.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 yohoho users 335 2005-02-26 05:39 appreg
drwxr-xr-x 3 yohoho users 144 2005-02-26 05:39 firefox/
-rw------- 1 yohoho users 1.9K 2006-03-15 10:21 pluginreg.dat
drwxr-xr-x 2 yohoho users 48 2005-06-23 05:31 plugins/
drwxr-xr-x 2 yohoho users 80 2006-01-15 18:41 searchplugins/

giddygiddyBA · 2006-03-15 16:20:54

you are right about the problem scottro,

i moved my .mozilla folder to a temp folder, started up firefox, copied my bookmarks over and everything is fine now.

Solved!

giddygiddyBA · 2006-03-15 16:26:03

I would like to hear if this solves yur problem too Eliatamby...

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-03-15 16:45:38

I think scottro is right. I sometimes used some apps while in a root session, 'cause I was dump, dull, lazy, tired ... and then found root had overtaken my ~/.folders.

Eliatamby · 2006-03-16 00:26:37

Will try it at home tonight.

For the record, /tmp is 777

raskolnikov · 2006-03-16 02:45:24

You mean 1777.

Eliatamby · 2006-03-16 10:55:19

Yeah, it turns out that the .mozilla file in home WAS owned by root. Bizare. Could this have happened during an upgrade of something? made owner/group username/user and all was good.

Thanks scottro

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Firefox/Mozilla won't run as normal user [SOLVED]

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Re: Firefox/Mozilla won't run as normal user [SOLVED]

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