Firefox will not start from desktop

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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".

I forgot to ask if you tried deleting the .mozilla directory in /home
or reinstalliing firefox.