firebird will only start as root

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briteshadow · Post by **briteshadow** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:12 am

I cant seem to get firebird to start when I am logged in as anyone but root... all other programs work just fine.

When i click on the icion it does nothing and when i type MozillaFirebird at the command line it just closes right away with no output.

when log in as root all is fine though

I am using gnome 2.4

please help

meowsqueak · Post by **meowsqueak** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:27 am

You probably have ~/.mozilla or whatever firebird uses owned by root. This happens if you've run mozilla/firebird for the first time with sudo. This should fix it:

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$ chown user.user -R ~/.mozilla

Replace 'user' with your username. Also, check the directory and files are readable by you (and preferably writable too).

cripwalk · Post by **cripwalk** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:27 am

Did you by chance just install some extensions? Ive had this happen to me before after installing them.

I ended up deleting the /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/chrome (if you unmerge firebird this directory does not get deleted) and reinstalling firebird and everything worked fine.

ozukir@ · Post by **ozukir@** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:10 am

I am just now experiencing this problem using mozilla-firebird-0.7. It was working fine yesterday under Gnome2, and then unexpectatedly it wouldn't open after closing all my browser windows. This occurred while logged into the same gnome session.

There were no error messages, and everything seems as though the MozillaFirebird processes are running as normal. Comparison of ps -aux when running Firebird as root (and seeing the windows) versus ps -aux as any user (without seeing the windows) were functionally the same.

I created a new account to test if some local environment variables were the cause to the same result. I tested it under different window managers. I re-emerged Firebird with fingers crossed to no avail. So now I have manually removed /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird and am re-emerging again (I thought ccache would speed this up!).

This is strange, like I'm using Window$ or something...

ozukir@ · Post by **ozukir@** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:51 am

That took care of it for me. Still have no idea what cruft in /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird was causing it.

kamui · Post by **kamui** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:04 am

I have been having issues with 0.7 as well since upgradeing. Have un-emerged it and remerged as well with no luck.

I do how ever get this text when I run the exe in a terminal

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kamui@nightshade kamui $ MozillaFirebird
/bin/md5sum: core: Permission denied
/bin/md5sum: core: Permission denied
kamui@nightshade kamui $

I am now going to remove it again and try deleting my .mozilla and .pheonix dir's as well as /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird... Will touch back with my findings )

kamui · Post by **kamui** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:12 am

Well after doing that it seemes to have worked, I do still get this as a read out when running MozillaFrebird tho

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/bin/md5sum: core: Permission denied

<shrug> Atleast it works though, I just hope that it will continue to work after I log out and back... nite