Chromium browser wont start in FreeBSD 10

[john_rambo]

Hi.
I have installed installed Chromium browser using pkg but it wont start.

This is my second day in FreeBSD. I don't know the path to the executable.

Commands in the terminal does not auto complete under a regular user.

I don't feel it is safe to launch a browser as root so I didn't try it.

How to troubleshoot ?

 

[trh411]

Do you have:

kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1

in your /etc/sysctl.conf file? IIRC, www/chromium refuses to start without it.

 

[trh411]

Sorry, one after-thought that I should have included in my previous post. After adding the line to /etc/sysctl.conf, you can run the command sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 to avoid having to reboot. Subsequent reboots will use /etc/sysctl.conf so you only have to issue the sysctl(8) command once.

 

[john_rambo]

It worked. Thanks a lot.

 

[Hewitson]

This is my second day in FreeBSD. I don't know the path to the executable.

You can use the which command to locate an executable that's in your PATH.