Harald Wenninger wrote:
I noticed such a problem. Firefox did not start for _new_ users using icewm.Hi, I have problems with mozilla+firefox. I am using the unstable distribution. Every time I want to start firefox or mozilla, no window is opened. The .mozilla-dir and its subdirectories get created, though. There's no error displayed in the terminal from which I start the browsers. Does anybody know somethin about this problem?
The error is in firefox (or some library), and the workaround is this: For each user that cannot get firefox going: 1. log in as that user running X 2. $ xhost + (Yes, disable access control!) 3. start firefox which will now work 4. close firefox 5. $ xhost - (Normal access control again.) Firefox will now work. Firefox does something stupid and mistakenly thinks it is being denied access to the X display. Let it run once without access control, and it'll save something to the users .mozilla/ that makes it work the next times. The permanent fix is: $ reportbug firefox And complain loudly about this idiocy. (Check to see if the bug is reported already.) If it is not, report it and make sure to get all details about error messages and such. If it _is_ reported, just add your details and opinions to the existing report. Helge Hafting