ive just recently installed slacwear 9.1 "correctly", ive notice a few annoying bugs
1> Mozilla only starts as root
2>Galeon wont let me click on buttons while surfing the web
3> alsamixer errors out every time its started, ive had sound trubles before with this soundcard while useing redhat

right now mozilla is the largest of my problems, any suggestions?

Do you get an error message when you attempt to run mozilla as a normal user? I can think of several possibilities why it would work as root but not as a normal user:

1. Root has mozilla executable in the $PATH, while normal user doesn't. Run 'which mozilla' as both root and normal user; if both of them get the correct path to mozilla, then that's not the problem. If the user gets something like 'mozilla not found in /bin:/usr/bin:...', then the user can either run mozilla by typing the full pathname to mozilla, like /usr/local/bin/mozilla, or by adding that path to his profile.
2. Root has execute permission for mozilla, but normal user doesn't. Find out where the mozilla executable is by using 'which mozilla' above, and then do 'ls -l /path/to/mozilla'; see if there is an 'x' shown in three places in the leftmost columns. If not, as root try 'chmod +x /path/to/mozilla' and see if that lets a normal user run it.
3. User can execute mozilla, but something goes wrong before it runs properly. Depends on what error message you get when you attempt it. Run it from a terminal window to get the best chance of having a helpful error printed out.

im going to try those first two (but i do not get an error while mozila starts it jsut never loads)

mozilla is marked as an excutable for everyone, and which mozila returns the same results

strace mozilla

this should give you a pretty good idea where it is crapping out

thanks, im not realy to sure on what mozilla returned, (it returned about 4 pages of info) several errors starting ENOENT (no such file or directory) and ECHILD (no such child prosess)

those errors can be completely innocent. paste the last few lines of the strace output.

--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
wait4(-1, 0xbffff06c, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [RTMIN])
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8075660, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x40058988}, 8) = 0rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
stat64("core", 0xbffff360) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
read(255, "\nexit $exitcode\n", 8176) = 16
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
exit_group(1)

So did you ever figure it out? The thread seems to have ended and I have the same problem.

Hi there,
I had the same problem, dont know what caused this.
I solved this by doing:
'chmod -R 777 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6'
Well, its probably not very accurate and clean, but who cares, it works...

I followed the suggestion of uninstalling Mozilla and reinstalling it. That worked.

Thanks for the note, though.