$ firefox &
[1] 1933
$
(firefox:1947): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type=’PangoRenderFc’, script=’common’
GConf Error: 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: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message)
(firefox:1947): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type=’PangoRenderFc’, script=’common’
GConf Error: 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: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message)
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:? 1947 Segmentation fault? “$prog” ${1+”$@”}
[1]+? Exit 139? firefox
Should you see such an error when attempting to run FireFox from a remote terminal connecting to a local XServer (Xming, or similar) check the following:
1. That the haldaemon is running
2. That the dbus-x11 package is installed. On RedHat based systems, you can yum install dbus-x11
3. That you have fonts installed. I did a bit of a brute force approach and ran: yum groupinstall ‘Fonts’