On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> On Monday 29 October 2007 13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:05:34PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> > > When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens.
> > > (i recently screwed up the permissions on my system.) but if i start it
> > > as root ('sudo'), or use iceape, all is ok.
> >
> > what specifically happens? do you get a save dialog at all? does it
> > seem to save but leave no file?
> >
> > regardless of the above, based on your whole permissions history, I'd
> > say you should remove and reinstall firefox as a good starting point.
> >
> > A
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> no save dialog, tho' nothing like a complaint that it can't save. it acts in
> other words as if a good save except that nothing gets save,except that saving the page should pop up a save dialog, so its definitely not working properly. > BUT if i look in > the ff error console, i find: > > Error: null has no properties > Source File: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.js > Line: 545 > > Error: not well-formed > Source File: > file:///home/kloro/.mozilla/firefox/uvxnoydh.Default%20User/\ > downloads.rdf > Line: 3125, Column: 36 > Source Code: > <RDF:Description RDF:about="/tmp/É-Å(Þ·²ÎÒÒ.mp3"--- > > Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "ServiceManager::\ > GetService returned failure code:" nsresult: \ > "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: \ > "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/\ > downloads.js :: Startup :: line 476" data: no] > > Error: null has no properties > Source File: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.js > Line: 545 > I don't know about this at all, but below... > > > also, when i did reinstall, i got the message: > > Reading changelogs... Done > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. > Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-rootcohchy" > Error: "/tmp/kde-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. > Link points to "/tmp/kde-root" > Error: "/tmp/ksocket-kloroyr3bC5" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. > Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root" > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. > Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-rootcohchy" > apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n]? what are the perms of /var itself and its subdirs? mine looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.emacs.d$ ls -ld /var drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K 2007-08-04 09:05 /var [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.emacs.d$ ls -l /var total 26K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2007-10-29 06:25 backups drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1.0K 2007-10-16 18:08 cache drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1.0K 2006-09-26 16:59 games drwxr-xr-x 52 root root 1.0K 2007-10-18 11:23 lib drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 1.0K 2004-12-15 14:55 local drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1.0K 2007-10-19 09:49 lock drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 3.0K 2007-10-29 11:52 log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K 2006-07-28 18:39 lost+found drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 1.0K 2007-10-29 14:00 mail drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2006-07-28 18:40 opt drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1.0K 2007-10-29 11:46 run drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1.0K 2007-09-06 11:48 spool drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 1.0K 2007-10-29 11:52 tmp anything under /var/tmp should be owned by root (UID 0), and not you (UID 1000, probably), so start there. hth. A
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