* Ian Schindler (ian.schind...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Eric Dorland <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > > * Ian Schindler (ian.schind...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Package: iceweasel > > > Version: 3.0.3-3 > > > > > > When iceweasel is run for the first time, it cannot access the directory > > > ~/.mozilla/firefox (permisssion denied) which causes it to crash. (I > > > installed Etch and immediately upgraded to Lenny before installing > > > iceweasel.) > > > > > > > > > I solved this problem by running > > > $sudo iceweasel > > > $sudo chown -R me:me .mozilla > > > > > > I don't know if the first step was necessary. > > > > > > I am including the tail of the output from > > > $strace iceweasel > > > > Any idea if the directory existed with the wrong permissions before > > you ran iceweasel? > > > I recently performed 3 installations in which I installed Etch and > immediately upgraded to Lenny. I encountered the above bug in 2 of the > installations. > > I checked the 2 machines where I encountered the bug. The bug only occurs > in the account used for upgrading the system from Etch to Lenny (using > sudo). All other accounts do not contain a directory ~/.mozilla, and > iceweasel creates the directories with the correct permissions when started > for the first time. > > I did a similar installation without encountering the bug. The difference > in procedure was that I did not install the standard desktop in Etch before > upgrading, I only installed the base system, upgraded, and then installed > the desktop environment by hand. > > The directory ~/.mozilla seems to have been created with the wrong > permissions by some other package included in the standard desktop > environment, after which iceweasel is unable to access the directory. > > Hope this helps.
What are the permissions it's created with? Is this before the upgrade or after? PS please keep the bug CCed. -- Eric Dorland <e...@kuroneko.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: ho...@jabber.com
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