Firefox Only Runs as root

athomas · 05-06-2010, 08:48 AM

This is on RedHat EL 5.2. I extract the tar.bz2 file downloaded from Mozilla's site, and drop it in user/firefox. I try to run Firefox, from a launcher I made, and nothing happens. I use the root terminal, and cd to the firefox directory, and run ./firefox, and it opens. The user owns all of the files and directories, but it still won't work unless I'm root. How do I fix this one?

ronlau9 · 05-06-2010, 09:37 AM

Do not know if it works fore REL
But I do not like to install it system wide than I extract it as user in my home dir and run it from there.

athomas · 05-06-2010, 11:17 AM

Firefox is developed for RHEL.......

MTK358 · 05-06-2010, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by athomas

Firefox is developed for RHEL.......

What do you mean?

It's developed for Linux, by no means for RHEL specifically.

athomas · 05-06-2010, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTK358

What do you mean?

It's developed for Linux, by no means for RHEL specifically.

Ok, Firefox is installed by default with RHEL. It's made to work with RHEL.

MTK358 · 05-06-2010, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by athomas

This is on RedHat EL 5.2. I extract the tar.bz2 file downloaded from Mozilla's site, and drop it in user/firefox. I try to run Firefox, from a launcher I made, and nothing happens. I use the root terminal, and cd to the firefox directory, and run ./firefox, and it opens. The user owns all of the files and directories, but it still won't work unless I'm root. How do I fix this one?

Have you tried opening it from the terminal as non-root?

athomas · 05-06-2010, 11:21 AM

Yeah it just returns me back to the prompt after I try and run is as the regular user.

MTK358 · 05-06-2010, 11:23 AM

Does it leave any error messages?

athomas · 05-06-2010, 11:23 AM

None at all.

corbintechboy · 05-06-2010, 11:31 AM

Chmod it

athomas · 05-06-2010, 11:32 AM

Tried it, it's in the /home/ folder under the user in question so it's not that. The user automatically owns and has full access to anything in its home folder.

repo · 05-06-2010, 11:40 AM

try

Code:

mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_OLD

start firefox
make sure ~/.mozilla is owned by the user

liderbug · 07-11-2010, 11:43 AM

I just UG'ed to FC13 and root can run firefox, but not as me(user) - just returns to the prompt. After some searching I found: (in .mozilla) mv firefox old.firefox then run firefox - it will rebuild a new subdir. I did, it does and FF fires right up - sans all history/bookmarks etc. I have compared old.dir vs new and am not finding any differences in permission, ownership. If someone can tell me how to get my 409 entries transferred to the new I'll go away - happy.

Thanks

joshuagahan · 04-24-2012, 10:34 PM

Thank you Thank you Thank you. That was exactly what I needed to fix a problem I've been working on for an hour. Now my fox isn't running as root