24 November 2004
Firefox on SuSe
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: LAMP; Tips .
I just installed SuSe 9.1, downloaded Mozilla Firefox and happily ran the installer. I was immediately greeted with:
Xlib: connection to “:0.0” refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified(firefox-installer-bin:10674): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
The simplest way to fix it is to open the ‘firefox’ script and add “xhost +” to the top of the file (just before the script starts), and add “xhost -” just before the EOF at the bottom of the file. This solved the problem for me. I installed firefox as root into the /opt/firefox directory.
15 Comments so far...
Frank Says:
1 December 2004 at 7:07 pm.
Hi Mikhail,
When you say ‘the firefox script’, do you mean the installer script?
Mikhail Says:
2 December 2004 at 6:54 pm.
Hi Frank: I mean the actual script that runs the ‘firefox-bin’ executable. It’s available in your installation directory and is simply named ‘firefox’.
frank Says:
3 December 2004 at 3:35 am.
No such file. There IS a script called ‘firefox-installer’, but if I add those lines to this file I get:
Xlib: connection to “:0.0” refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
xhost: unable to open display “:0.0”
Xlib: connection to “:0.0” refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
(firefox-installer-bin:4911): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Xlib: connection to “:0.0” refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
xhost: unable to open display “:0.0”
Mikhail Says:
3 December 2004 at 2:50 pm.
Frank: You’re trying to edit the installer. You need to install Firefox first. If you’re using SuSe, I suggest installing to /opt/firefox. Once you do that, you’ll find the ‘firefox’ script at /opt/firefox/. This is the file you need to add those lines to.
Secondly, if the installer itself is a problem, run it as ‘root’. Login to GNOME/KDE as root and then run it. This should solve your problem. If you login as yourself, first do a ‘xhost +’ in the command line before doing a ‘su’ or ‘sudo’ for installation.
frank Says:
5 December 2004 at 12:14 am.
That worked: I had to install firefox as root FROM THE GUI, then edit the script, and only then can FF be used by non-root users. At least on Suse 9.1
Carit Benike Says:
14 January 2005 at 9:03 pm.
Great fix, wonder why mozilla didn’t think of that!?
Mohammed Says:
16 May 2005 at 10:52 pm.
Thanks very much, your directives worked fine for me.
I had same problem, was NOT able to run firefox after installed it, just added the little commands into the firfox file and —> IT WORKED
THANKS
Paul Says:
21 May 2005 at 5:56 pm.
Just wanted to add my thanks to the list. I was completely baffled. For that matter, I still am, but at least firefox is working!
wea Says:
30 May 2005 at 3:19 pm.
Great, thanks man.
CB Says:
7 July 2005 at 6:47 am.
Quick easy fix, many thanks. Also SuSE 9.1.
Vipul Says:
8 July 2005 at 6:54 am.
simple yet effective! Thanks!
Robert Cassidy Says:
23 August 2005 at 8:43 pm.
Thank you for the information. As a newbie to Linux and Suse I had no chance without your help
Tigre(Gary Blessing) Says:
21 September 2005 at 10:49 pm.
Hey thanks, Never could have got it otherwise!
Tigre
