Firefox will not start from desktop

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Anthony Houston
<anthony.houston at athouston.com.au> wrote:
> I am running Fedora 11; clean new install on new hard drive.
>
> Name       : firefox
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 3.5.3
> Release    : 1.fc11
>
> Firefox will not start from the desktop icon but will start from the CLI
> but only as su. Even then I get the following errors:
>
> (firefox:2295): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session
> manager:
>
> None of the authentication protocols specified are supported.
>
> Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that
> you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
> locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for
> information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not
> receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
> send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the
> reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
>
> I tried to follow the gnome url listed in the error but could not find
> some of the references on my computer.
>
> I have performed the following to make sure my system is uptodate:
>
> su
> yum update --enablerepo=rpm*g --enablerepo=u*g --skip-broken -v
> reboot
>
> There are MANY threads on FedorumForum about this with all the same
> suggestions. I logged this as a bug with Mozilla but they say it isn't
> and that I need to go back to the packager (fedora).
>
> Any suggestions please.
>

Check permissions for the user.  Do "ls -la /home/user_name".