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#1 2006-05-29 07:14:53

steve_waters
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2006-02-20
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Firefox will onnly run as "root"

I have an issue with firefox it will only run if I start it as root.

If I use my normal user I get this error:

/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.5.0.3/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  5433 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Any ideas?

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#2 2006-05-29 08:09:36

pressh
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Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

Are the permissions of your firefox directory in $HOME correct ?

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#3 2006-05-29 08:14:09

steve_waters
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

Not sure what should they be?

Read,write, execute for me? and then what access for others?

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#4 2006-05-29 08:16:30

steve_waters
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

It looks like I am the owner and I have full permissions, all others have no rights.

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#5 2006-05-29 08:53:32

pressh
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Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

steve_waters wrote:

It looks like I am the owner and I have full permissions, all others have no rights.

that's correct

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#6 2006-05-29 16:52:18

sebcactus
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Registered: 2005-01-27
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Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

You probably did, but did you check also the subfolders permissions ?

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#7 2006-05-29 17:18:35

arooaroo
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Registered: 2005-01-13
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Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

I had a similar seg fault message. For me, it turned out to be related to pango.

See info from previous thread.

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#8 2006-05-30 07:05:44

steve_waters
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2006-02-20
Posts: 60

Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

Ah thanks for that but i solved it my self.......

......I just loaded up Opera and it works a treat.

Lazy but I dont have time at the moment to be digging around with stuff and always good to see what else is out there......


Thanks for replies

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#9 2006-06-12 02:31:03

Eliatamby
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Registered: 2005-05-06
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Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

check your /tmp file permissions

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#10 2006-06-14 08:00:10

steve_waters
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2006-02-20
Posts: 60

Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

ok will do, thanks

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#11 2006-06-14 08:01:15

steve_waters
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2006-02-20
Posts: 60

Re: Firefox will onnly run as "root"

I appear to hve read write access to /tmp as well

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