Firefox 1.5 won't start on FreeBSD 5.4

[Vladimir Terziev]

	That's not the solution, since i ran it as the user who owns the whole package, e.g. the user has permissions to write in the package tree. I mean the package has been installed into a custom PREFIX, not /usr/local

		Vladimir


On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:11:53 -0600
Vladimir Egorin <vladimir at math.uic.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:41:25PM +0200, Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> 	> 
> 	> 	Hi,
> 	> 
> 	> 	i have problems starting the latest release version of firefox - 1.5 on FreeBSD 5.4 (FreeBSD host.domain.tld 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Sep 16 17:19:46 EEST 2005     root at host.domain.tld:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/WORKSTATION  i386). The package has been built from the firefox port, e.g.  firefox-1.5_4,1 .
> 	> 
> 	> 	The problems occure when i try to start the firefox. It attempts to start, but after certain amount time just returns the command prompt without any error.
> 	> 
> 	> 	Do you have any ideas how to fix the problem ?
> 	> 
> 	> 	Best regards,
> 	> 
> 	> 		Vladimir
> 	> 	
> 
> Try running it as root for the first time.   When (if) it starts, exit firefox
> and start it from your user shell.
> -- 
> Vladimir