Joan Duncans
March 4th, 2009, 03:19 PM
Hello,
I managed to break firefox for users. To be precise, firefox does start and does load websites, but even after having apparently loaded a website it continues showing this rotating icon for loading. The buttons for forward, backward, stop are greyed out, and the bookmarks toolbar is just a grey box, too. No bookmarks are loaded at all.
Firefox continues to work fine for root, that is when using "sudo firefox". Not exactly a sensible thing to do, I believe.
I have the latest release 8.10 and downloaded every recommended update. Then, I started downloading tons of extra packages to compile a 3rd party software (SU from Colorado School of Mines): openmesa, glut, Xn, GL, extra X11 things, etc. Admittedly, I don't quite understand whether that's all compatible, but it compiled. After that, see above.
It seems, user may no longer read or write to some file owned by root, or else???
Thanks,
Joan
I managed to break firefox for users. To be precise, firefox does start and does load websites, but even after having apparently loaded a website it continues showing this rotating icon for loading. The buttons for forward, backward, stop are greyed out, and the bookmarks toolbar is just a grey box, too. No bookmarks are loaded at all.
Firefox continues to work fine for root, that is when using "sudo firefox". Not exactly a sensible thing to do, I believe.
I have the latest release 8.10 and downloaded every recommended update. Then, I started downloading tons of extra packages to compile a 3rd party software (SU from Colorado School of Mines): openmesa, glut, Xn, GL, extra X11 things, etc. Admittedly, I don't quite understand whether that's all compatible, but it compiled. After that, see above.
It seems, user may no longer read or write to some file owned by root, or else???
Thanks,
Joan