Bug 144609

Summary: firefox will not start as non-root user on x86_64
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mike Mangino <mmangino>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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shell script output from adding -x to firefox and run_mozilla.sh none

Description Mike Mangino 2005-01-09 17:49:48 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
Firefox will start and run as the root user, but will not run as a
non-root user. Due to strace being broken, no strace output is provided.

I added -x to all of the bourne shell scripts and have attached the
output.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.0-2.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run firefox as a non-root user
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Actual Results:  after a second, the application exits

Expected Results:  Firefox should start

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike Mangino 2005-01-09 17:50:59 UTC
Created attachment 109533 [details]
shell script output from adding -x to firefox and run_mozilla.sh

Comment 2 Sitsofe Wheeler 2005-01-09 21:37:48 UTC
Try moving aside your .firefox directory (make sure that firefox isn't running
at the time!) If that helps, check the permissions on the old firefox directory
match those of the user running firefox...

Comment 3 Mike Mangino 2005-01-10 00:14:56 UTC
Wow, I feel like an idiot. This was a new install, but removing the .mozilla
directory did it. Thanks.