Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox
Just after upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04 I try to start Firefox but
nothing happens. So I run it from command line and I get the following
error:
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ballenato@bromo:~$ firefox
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0.1/xulapp-profilemigrator", line 459, in <module>
update_stamp (options.profile + '.last-version', options.series if
migrator.ask_again == False else migrator.last_series.raw)
File "/usr/lib/firefox-4.0.1/xulapp-profilemigrator", line 437, in
update_stamp
fd = open (stampfile, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permiso denegado:
'/home/ballenato/.mozilla/firefox.last-version'
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The problem is that, for some reason, the ownership of .mozilla
directory has been changed to a non-existing user 1016:
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ballenato@bromo:~$ ls -ld /home/ballenato/.mozilla/
drwxr-xr-x 5 1016 1016 4096 2010-04-02 19:46 /home/ballenato/.mozilla/
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Changing ownership of the said directory to my own user fixes the
problem (sudo chown ballenato /home/ballenato/.mozilla).
The expected behavior is that the ownership shouldn't have changed on
first place.
I was already using Firefox 4 before upgrading Ubuntu (not installed
through package manager, but downloading files and running), so my
profile folder was already "migrated" to Firefox 4.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 1 21:32:21 2011
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
flashplugin-installer N/A
adobe-flashplugin N/A
icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=es_ES:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-01 (0 days ago)
** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty running-unity
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775107
Title:
Firefox doesn't start after upgrade to 11.04 due to change on .mozilla
directory's ownership
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