firefox won't start

[shaggyman87]

Hey I've been messing around with Debian Sarge on my laptop for awhile now. I installed fvwm and some basic packages. I can connect to the internet jsut fine while as root, but when I switch to my user account I get the following error.

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!

Can anyone offer any kind of help. Or at least direct me to where I can find the error log and maybe I can figure it out for myself.

I've been looking around. It seems a lot of people are getting this erro, but no one seems to know how to fix it. I don't want to upgrade to etch just yet. I started playing with linux because I wanted to learn as much as I can and upgrading doesn't seem like I would be learning how to deal with this problem. I wouldn't mind upgrading to a better version of firefox or another web browser.

Looking around it seems this is only happening with firefox. Can anyone suggest another robust web browser with a good selection of plugins. Something that's basic, small, fast, and secure.

Thanks for looking.

[Vergil83]

does firefox not run or just not connect to the internet?

[shaggyman87]

I can wget google.com and get a response and I can ping within my network (its a college network). Firefox just won't come up. If I start as root and su to my username firefox won't come up. If I start as my user and su to root it still won't come up. Also there's another line of error that I forgot.

The error also says:

(firefox-bin:3509): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Also it's not jsut with the xterm. If I try to launch mozilla-firefox from Debian>Apps>Net>Mozilla its a no go.

[Vergil83]

That problem seems to be with the new profile then. Try running the first time with
XRE_IMPORT_PROFILES=1 firefox &
so it can create a profile. After that, I think it should be fine
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+s...efox/+bug/7022
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246313

[shaggyman87]

I worked! What does that command do? What config file/ or setting did it change.

Thanks for the help.

[Vergil83]

It told firefox do not do its normal wizard thing (do you want to import bookmarks, etc...). The bug seems to be connected with xdm and firefox.