On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Eric Dorland <e...@debian.org> wrote:

> * 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.
>
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> Eric Dorland <e...@kuroneko.ca>
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I don't remember the permissions, the owner was root.  The problem occurred
after the upgrade.  I installed Etch and immediately upgraded to Lenny
before using any applications other than apt-get and vi.

Funny, I had a similar bug with openoffice on one install which I did not
report (lack of time and foggy memory), the directory ~/.openoffice.org2
was owned by root.  Openoffice opened, but then was unable to open files
because it could not access the directory (complained about something to do
with languages as I recall).  I do not know if the bugs are related.

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