[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2012-04-24 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430250 Title:

Re: [Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-11-02 Thread Fernando Sancho
Yes, I forgot to mention that i am using likewise-open to join an active directory too. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > The apparmor change worked for me. > > One noteworthy situation on my system at least is that I am using > likewise-open to join an active directory domain.

[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-11-02 Thread pato101
Interesting, Alex!: The user where apparmor was blocking has /home/pr/$USER home folder instead of /home/$USER. Not using AD, but for historic reasons, the home folder is under non-usual location. -- firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43025

[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Mauer
The apparmor change worked for me. One noteworthy situation on my system at least is that I am using likewise-open to join an active directory domain. So this means that instead of /home/$USER/, the user directories are at /home/WINDOMAIN/$USER/ I don’t know if this is the case for Fernando Sanc

[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-11-02 Thread pato101
Seems that apparmor is avoiding firefox access some files. It is strange because I have one user where firefox just runs and another where it does not. I've seen that I had apparmor enforced for firefox: $ sudo cat /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles [...] /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.*/firefox (enfor

[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-11-02 Thread Fernando Sancho
My ~/.mozilla directory belongs to my user and still have the problem -- firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430250 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-10-31 Thread bandgeek
I had the same problem. It appears that the problem is that the configuration file in your home directory belongs to root. So to fix it you just run. sudo chown -R username:username ~/.mozilla -- firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430250 You

[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-10-29 Thread dm
I have the same problem after upgrading to Karmic RC1. I can delete the lockfile, but everytime I start firefox it apears again and I get the message ´Firefox is allready running ...´ -- firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430250 You received

[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-09-15 Thread Micah Gersten
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[Bug 430250] Re: firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.

2009-09-15 Thread Alex Mauer
an strace of firefox-3.5 shows the following around where the lock error is displayed: [pid 16470] open("/home/user/.pulse-cookie", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 30 [pid 16470] fcntl64(30, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xbfda94ec) = -1 EACCES (Permis