Hey I installed MozillaFirebird awhile baack - it used to work - then it started just 'not opening' - made sure everything is good with the command etc - good.

Root can open it but users cannot.
Sounds like a permissions issue. I tried installing it as user and as root with the same result.
Changed the permissions to 755 then 777 - same.

Even tried installing to the /usr/local directory to bypass any default permissions issues with my /home and /storage.


Any ideas ??

Thanks

You may have a problem with your profile.

An easy test of this would be to try to rename the .phoenix directory in your home directory and start firefox up to recreate a profile with default settings.

You say you installed firebird a while back ... By any chance have you installed the new firefox but kept your old profile? I did this and couldn't start the app. If I remember right it was because the old extensions are incompatible - you have to download them again for the new firefox. I deleted my old profile and everything was fine.

Explain how you are trying to open it. Are you using the command line? What are you typing. When it doesn't open what does it do? Just sit there doing nothing? Throw and error?
I installed MozilaFirebird to /opt. I can type /opt/MozillaFirebird/Mozillafirebird to open it.

mctavish ~ I've already checked.
I have even gone to the length of deleting the install, redownloading [several times] ~ there still no joy.
Like I said - root works so it may be something wierd with permissions.

parent dir:
drwxrwxr-x 10 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:54 firefox
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mossy mossy 9189879 Feb 16 15:16 firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

firefox dir:
drwxrwxr-x 17 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:54 chrome
drwxrwxr-x 2 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:54 components
drwxrwxr-x 5 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:31 defaults
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 2733 Feb 7 21:47 firefox
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 14259224 Feb 7 21:54 firefox-bin
drwxrwxr-x 2 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:47 icons
drwxrwxr-x 3 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 20:16 ipc
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 431176 Feb 7 21:54 libmozjs.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 171332 Feb 7 21:54 libnspr4.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 443260 Feb 7 21:54 libnss3.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 178816 Feb 7 21:54 libnssckbi.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 14744 Feb 7 21:54 libplc4.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 8672 Feb 7 21:54 libplds4.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 149360 Feb 7 21:54 libsmime3.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mossy mossy 476 Feb 7 21:55 libsoftokn3.chk
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 458588 Feb 7 21:54 libsoftokn3.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 136000 Feb 7 21:54 libssl3.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 107180 Feb 7 21:54 libxpcom_compat.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 879752 Feb 7 21:54 libxpcom.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 13012 Feb 7 21:54 libxpistub.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 5036 Feb 7 21:54 mangle
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 7564 Feb 7 21:54 mozilla-xremote-client
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 46408 Feb 7 21:54 mozipcd
drwxrwxr-x 2 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:54 plugins
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 12776 Feb 7 21:54 regchrome
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 76800 Feb 7 21:54 regxpcom
drwxrwxr-x 9 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:54 res
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 10897 Dec 15 11:27 run-mozilla.sh
drwxrwxr-x 2 mossy mossy 4096 Feb 7 21:27 searchplugins
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 70596 Feb 7 21:54 shlibsign
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mossy mossy 20724 Feb 7 21:54 xpicleanup

anymore ideas?

[edit] It will do absolutely nothing.

mctavish~ I checked in .phoenix and I will give it a shot at renaming it and test in gui tonight.


[edit]
Actually this really makes sense...I bet it will fix it. It's the only logical thing that it would be as I never deleted it...I will let you know.

Forgive me if you already know this, but just to flesh it out...

Your profiles are contained in the ~/.phoenix directory. Firefox was called phoenix before it was called firebird

I suggested renaming .phoenix rather than deleting it just so you can go back to your original state if this does not turn out to be the problem.

yeah I never realized it was phoeinx - it would do them some justice to rename the bloody thing, I never thought about the profile tho - DOH!

will give it a shot tonight and affero you if it works.

mctavish~
Renaming the .phoenix profile worked. I was trying to affero you when I got this message so I cancelled for now ~ vault.affero.net security certificate that encrypts data during transmission has expired on 2/11/2004. I presume they will get the security cerfiticate working again soon so I will try again later. If you hear anything about it meantime please let me know.

Thanks again for the sharp eye.

Mossy

Glad to hear everything worked out mossy.

Re affero, well I don't really know what thats all about. Is that something I need to set up? I suppose I'll check it all out.

Just checked out Affero. I don't think I'll get into that. Thanks anyway!