Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.4-2sarge7 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line ***
Here's a little story for BTS readers. I hope it is helpful. I kept getting these irritating messages from firefox on startup, as a normal user - Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files probably because you do not have write privileges to this location. While you can run Firefox like this, it is recommended that you run it at least once with privileges that allow it to generate these initial files to improve start performance. Running from a disk image on MacOS X is not recommended. So I tried to run the program as root, to fix the problem $ su - password: # export DISPLAY=:0 # env HZ=100 SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm USER=root MAIL=/var/mail/root PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 PWD=/root PS1=\h:\w\$ SHLVL=1 HOME=/root LOGNAME=root DISPLAY=:0 _=/usr/bin/env # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1003(lpadmin) # /bin/rm -rf .mozilla # firefox Now I get three copies of the warnings, not just one. Hm. Things I tried: # /bin/rm -rf .mozilla This is definitely tied to getting 3 warnings instead of 1. If I rerun firefox twice I go back to 1 warning; ie # /bin/rm -rf .mozilla; firefox; firefox # dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-firefox Made no difference I could see # dpkg -L mozilla-firefox | grep -i extens |xargs ls -l I could find no files or directories that were not owned by root or were not writeable by root. I also checked the /var/lib/mozilla-firefox tree. The only funny I noticed was that: /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/extensions/Extensions.rdf was missing. Hm. # touch /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/extensions/Extensions.rdf # chmod 0644 /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/extensions/Extensions.rdf # chown root:root /etc/mozilla-firefox/profile/extensions/Extensions.rdf This fixed the problem for the root user, and for the normal user. So the actual problem is that somehow this extensions file got deleted. It would have been helpful for Firefox to report that, instead of the gibberish it gave me. Hopefully later releases from upstream have attended to this. That leaves why the file was missing in the first place. Perhaps that is something that the package postinst or postrm scripts could do, on a bad day? Or an incomplete purge after an apt-get remove mozilla-firefox? It may be worth checking the package pre- & post- scripts to see if this is something that could possibly happen. Perhaps also it is something to do with the plugin set I have; libmozsvgdec.so, libjavaplugin_oji.so, libflashplayer.so I'm not sure I titled this bug report correctly, please retitle as you see fit. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-3.1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2sarge2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System printing extension ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
