firefox 3 not starting RHEL ES 4

[Jose R R]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Tangren, Bill
<bill.tangren at usno.navy.mil>wrote:

>
>
> > -----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 do not know if this will help you, Bill, since the following info is from
one of my partitions that has CentOS5.

The directory that contains the gdk-pixbuf.loaders file has the following
attributes:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-24 08:54
/etc/gtk-2.0/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/

whereas the actual file that you referenced above:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3142 2008-08-11 07:14
/etc/gtk-2.0/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders


> [...]
>

Jose R Rodriguez
Metztli Information Technology <http://www.metztli-it.com>
San Jose, California.

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