Fedcora 2 X86_64 mozilla problem
Cyrus Adkisson
cadkisson at rooseveltmedia.com
Sun Jul 11 02:21:46 UTC 2004
Well I'm not getting the getcwd error anymore. Now when I run firefox it
just returns without doing anything:
[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$ firefox
[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$ firefox
[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$ ps -A | grep firefox
[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$
Nothing happens. No windows, no error messages...
Cyrus
Phil Dybvig wrote:
>>However, when
>>I try to run firefox, it does nothing for me except produce this error:
>>
>>$ /usr/bin/firefox
>>shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access
>>parent directories: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>This is very strange. Are you running from a directory that has been deleted?
>Try 'man getcwd' to learn more about getcwd; it is a function that returns the
>current working directory.
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>>The /usr/bin/firefox script is set up for sh instead of bash...
>>would that make a difference?
>>
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>It shouldn't; this is normal, in fact /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash
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>>Do I have the 64-bit sh installed which is
>>causing the 32-bit firefox to die?
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>This is not an issue, since sh and firefox are not being linked together as
>binaries. In fact, the OS is designed to run both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries.
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>Just in case it is a working directory problem, I suggest trying
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> cd ~
> firefox
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>to see if the problem is the same.
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>-- Phil
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