On Sunday 20 July 2003 08:22 pm, Alan wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Klaus D. Neumann wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 July 2003 06:20 pm, Yorkshire Dave wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 01:32, Klaus D. Neumann wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > after I installed quicktools in Firebird, I am only able to run
> > > > Firebird as root. As normal user it won't start any longer. Is this a
> > > > known problem? How can I uninstall quicktools?
> > >
> > > When mozilla only runs as root, it often indicates a problem with file
> > > or directory permissions (in my experience anyway)
> > >
> > > run strace on it, you'll find out what it's dying on
> >
> > Hmm..., it's not dying, it kind of hangs, waiting for something to
> > happen, I believe. Does this make sense to you?:
> > -------------------------------
>
> [snip]
>
> > rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079e10, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4005ac68}, {SIG_DFL},
> > 8) = 0
> > wait4(-1,
>
> I don't think it's a problem with quicktools. I just installed the
> mozilla-firebird-cvs ebuild today and I'm getting the same symptoms, and
> the same strace (or similar anyway, the end wait4 is the same anyway).
Interesting! Can you start it as root? I could. Now I unmerged Firebird,
deleted the Firebird directory in /usr/lib/ and am about to emerge it again.
The strange thing is, it worked just perfectly before I added quicktools.
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Best regards,
Klaus
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