firefox not launching since upgrade to 0.9_1

[otzinger at allstream.net]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:21:54 +0100 (BST)
Richard Tobin <richard at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> > # firefox     <<-- we no longer need to launch 1st time as root, but...
> > (firefox-bin:87415): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:  
> 
> Presumably you don't have DISPLAY set when you're running as root.

hello, richard.  well, i don't know what the DISPLAY variable is or where
to set it, nor am i conscious of ever having so done (but i'm busy
googling it to learn more... :)   in the meantime, you managed,
nevertheless, to hit upon the problem.

i was trying to install from a virtual term within X (where $DISPLAY comes
in?) and recall that i recently changed my su habits -- now 'su -l' instead
of simple 'su'.  the upshot is that when i tried to run firefox as root,
without $DISPLAY set, it didn't work the mojo it was supposed to.  after i
realized that this might be the problem, i tried a simple 'su' and firefox
has since been happily interpreting html for me.

thanks for everyone's help on this!   

> > > firefox
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> > *** loading the extensions datasource
> 
> I have the same problem, but with an extra message:
> 
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so:
> Undefined symbol "_vt$16nsQueryInterface"]*** loading the extensions
> datasource LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> [/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so:
> Undefined symbol "_vt$16nsQueryInterface"]*** loading the extensions
> datasource
> 
> -- Richard
>