Guest xsenon Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 Hi there, i just installed Mandrake 10.1 and i must admitt, it rocks !!! But the Webbrowser cant't be started as a normal User. Only root can start Mozilla, Epihany and Firefox.. I am sure this is a simple problem, but i can't solve it. Does anybody know how to make it work ?? bye xsenon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 do you get a message or error telling that only root can use these apps, or do you get nothing & they don't open at all? what security level did you choose during install? i've never heard of a normal user not being able to access a web browser after an install. and finally, what method are you using to try to open these? are you using panel shortcut links or via command line? some thoughts/things to try without the above info........... to check security level, go to Mandrake Control Center->security->level & checks. make sure security is set to standard. if it isn't, set it to that & reboot. try running the browsers from terminal prompt as normal user, post any error messages here. for mozilla, just type mozilla (enter). i'm not sure of the other 2 since i don't use them, but you can check in /usr/bin & see what the proper binary file names are, then use those to type at the prompt. for example, epiphany might be as simple /usr/bin/epihany, or maybe the bin file is named a variation of that like /usr/bin/epiphany-bin. i think firefox is /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xsenon Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 Hi Chris, thank you for your help !!! My Security level is Medium and whenever i try start one of the Browsers, i dont't get any error message. It just doesn't pop up and nothing happens. It is the same if i start them in a terminal. The only Browser i can start as a User is Konqueror but i definetly have get mozilla working. So if anybody has some ideas, just post them.. ;) xsenon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 I do not see any security level "Medium" in MMC. Reset it to ...STANDARD.... that is all you normally need. Any higher and you get into the permissions problems you are experiencing. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apbsa Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 (edited) Have you checked the permissions of the files in your home directory? It is possible that you don't have correct permissions for your profile folders (eg ~/.mozilla in the case of mozilla) Sometimes permissions can change, including when you do an upgrade, or restore from a backup. Mozilla won't start properly if you don't have permissions to access the profile folder, the other programs may be the same. You can change the permissions so that you have full read/write access to all the files in your home directory. If I was called joe and my home directory was /home/joe I would open a terminal, change to the root account and type: chown joe -R /home/joe chmod -R u+rwx /home/joe chgrp -R joe /home/joe Try that, it may solve your problem. Edited October 24, 2004 by apbsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xsenon Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 Hey apbsa !! Thank you !!!!!! You made the point. It was exactly that problem. After changing the permissions for /.mozilla everything was fine. Even Firefox started without any problems.. xsenon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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