Re: Mozilla 1.2.1 for normal users

[Michael Weissenbacher <webmaster dermichi com>]

hi!
i've had the same problem. in my case it was even worse. i did run 
mozilla fine for the first time. i started it as normal user. as i 
wanted to install the enigmail plugin i had to start mozilla as root. 
after i tried starting mozilla as root, nothing happened, no error 
message, no window that openened. from this time on mozilla did not work 
at all, i didn't start when i was logged in as root, neighter did it 
when i tried it as another user.
after playing around for a while i figured something out. i went into 
the /misc/mozilla/work/mozilla/dist directory and tried to start 
bin/mozilla. starting mozilla from there worked! so i did the following: 
i packaged the whole directory in one .tar.gz, dereferencing all 
symlinks (--dereference) then i unpacked it to /opt/mozilla/. starting 
from there works without problems. i never found out what went wrong.

greetings
michael

Tomasz Król wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've just built mozilla 1.2.1 for garnome 0.18.3 (compling as root). First
> run on root's account goes smoothly (I've read somewere that mozilla needs
> it's first run as root, course it's creating some files for later use by
> other users). Now I want to run mozilla as normal user and... nothing! It
> just dosn't run... My user group has read/execute rights for whole garnome
> directory (mozilla is placed into garnome directory structure). Are there
> any files that needs special threat to run as non-root? I've make small test
> and set temporary rights to garnome folder to 777 - dosn't work... Any
> suggestions will be helpfull.
>
> BTW - is there a new garnome release coming out soon? I've noticed, that
> current gnome is already 2.1.4... ;-)
>
> Greetings - Tomek.
>
>
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