Firefox 1.5 won't start on FreeBSD 5.4

Vladimir Egorin vladimir at math.uic.edu
Tue Dec 6 13:10:37 PST 2005


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


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