361234 - SeaMonkey-1.0.6, Mozilla-1.7.13, firefox-2.0 all must run as root

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Graf Cackle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061113 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061113 Firefox/2.0

when i try to run seamonkey - compiled with debug flags - as a normal user, this is what i get

$ seamonkey
Type Manifest File: /usr/local/lib/seamonkey/components/xpti.dat
+++ JavaScript debugging hooks installed.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering succeeded
nsNativeComponentLoader: registering deferred (0)
/home/johno/.netscape/preferences.js exists:  0
no 4.x profile
************************************************************
* Call to xpconnect wrapped JSObject produced this error:  *
[Exception... "'[JavaScript Error: "notifier has no properties" {file: "file://usr/local/lib/seamonkey/components/calAlarmService.js" line: 259}]' when callin method: [nsIObserver::observe]"  nsresult: "0x80570021 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JAVASCRIP_ERROR_WITH_DETAILS)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: yes]
************************************************************
WARNING: nsExceptionService ignoring thread destruction after shutdown, file nsxceptionService.cpp, line 191
+++ JavaScript debugging hooks removed.
nsStringStats
 => mAllocCount:           1768
 => mReallocCount:         1172
 => mFreeCount:            1768
 => mShareCount:           2179
 => mAdoptCount:            271
 => mAdoptFreeCount:        270  --  LEAKED 1 !!!
$ 

and mozilla

$ mozilla
###!!! ASSERTION: couldn't get thread private index: 'nsThread::kIThreadSelfIndex != 0', file nsThread.cpp, line 376
Break: at file nsThread.cpp, line 376
Type Manifest File: /usr/local/lib/mozilla/components/xpti.dat
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering succeeded
nNCL: registering deferred (0)
/home/johno/.netscape/preferences.js exists:  0
no 4.x profile
nsStringStats
 => mAllocCount: 1594
 => mReallocCount: 1043
 => mFreeCount: 1594
 => mShareCount: 1934
 => mAdoptCount: 241
 => mAdoptFreeCount: 240
$ 
and firefox silently returns
$ firefox
$ 
all three run fine as root, if running as root is fine... I saw an old bugreport with i think firefox-0.9 where a user had to run as root, but only on first launching a newly installed copy


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.installed freebsd-6.0-vanilla - installed from official install disk, GENERIC kernel
$ uname -a
FreeBSD b_double 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005     [e-mail]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
$ 

2.installed gnome-2.16, freebsd port-build
3.browswer run only as root. was not an issue with gnome2.12

Actual Results:  
see details

Expected Results:  
run as normal user

could be a gnome/freebsd issue, but non-netscape browser  -ie opera - runs ok, but I don't much like opera

Comment 1

[Marco Perez [:mpk]]

There used to be a time when it was indeed necessary to run the apps as root
if you ran them vor the very first time. But that must have been years ago.
I haven't had any problems regarding that area since then.