firefox 3 not starting RHEL ES 4

[Tangren, Bill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Whitney
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:17 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: firefox 3 not starting RHEL ES 4
> 
> Bill,
> 
> This might be a trivial check, but did you look at the permission
> to the
> directory where the shared library is? It maybe that the directory
> permissions are set to 700.


You are definitely on the right track. The directory (and its
subdirectory) where libpangocairo had permissions of 700. I had to
change them to 755 before I made any progress. Now I get this error:

(Gecko:31008): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module
file '/usr/evolution28/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': Permission
denied

The problem here is, this file exists, but not in this location. It
exists at /usr/evolution28/etc/gtk-2.0/linux*/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

As a user, if I try to ls
/usr/evolution28/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders, I get a permission
denied. As root, if I do it, I get "file not found". 

Does this directory maybe need to have world write privileges?


> 
> I ran into a similar problem with my locked down box and forgot to
> open up
> the umask. So when I installed the updates, Firefox would not
> launch. A
> simple chmod fixed my problem.
> 
> Paul W
> WINS
> 
> 
> On 9/18/08 6:55 AM, "Tangren, Bill" <bill.tangren at usno.navy.mil>
> wrote:
> 
> > When I recently upgraded all my RHEL ES 4 servers to the latest
> minor
> > version (don't remember what the number is right now, but think
> it is
> > 6), firefox stopped working for users, but would still work for
> root. I
> > saw the thread about how it could be an NFS lock problem, but I
> don't
> > use NFS. This is the error I get when I try to start firefox from
> the
> > command line:
> >
> > /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox-bin: error while loading shared
> > libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object
> file: No
> > such file or directory
> >
> > But I have pango installed.
> >
> > This error is all over the internet for various OS's like Cent OS
> and
> > Debian, but I can't find a solution. See this link:
> >
> > http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-
> view_forum_thread.php?locale=fr&forumId=
> > 1&comments_parentId=73375
> >
> > as an example. The comments in the NFS thread indicated that it
> might be
> > a permissions problem on the ~/.firefox directory, but the
> permissions
> > are 775 in the example I give. Does anyone know what might be the
> > problem?
> >
> > ---
> > Bill Tangren
> > U.S. Naval Observatory
> >
> 
> 
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