On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:32:03PM +0100, Chris Carr wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I run Lenny on several different machines, so it was very confusing when 
> the same version of iceweasel would run perfectly on all the others and 
> simply refuse to start on this one. I eventually tracked down the 
> problem to ~/.mozilla - on this machine that dir had restricted 
> permissions (700). When I changed them to 777 it worked fine. 

700 should be ok. But you need to own the directory, then, which may not
be the case.

> I *think* the problem is that I started konqueror on this machine before 
> iceweasel was installed. Usually I install iceweasel immediately, before 
> running anything. Not certain though - will have to try and reproduce 
> this next time I install Lenny.

A likely cause is running iceweasel as root with $HOME set to your user
directory.

Cheers,

Mike



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