1410879 - Permission Denied: /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Wellington Torrejais da Silva]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171021114953

Steps to reproduce:

1- Open browser from terminal (Linux)
2- See every open this error:

(/usr/lib/firefox-trunk/firefox-trunk:8556): dconf-WARNING **: Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permissão negada



Actual results:

Error at terminal:

(/usr/lib/firefox-trunk/firefox-trunk:8556): dconf-WARNING **: Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permissão negada



Expected results:

No permission Denied error.

Comment 1

[traumschuleriebau]

I was able to reproduce this:

1. Open the Browser Console

2. Go to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/login

3. Click into the password field

For each new tab i do this, i see:

(/path/to/firefox-60.1.0esr/firefox:11730): dconf-WARNING : 18:09:31.042: Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied

Comment 2

[Wellington Torrejais da Silva]

(In reply to traumschuleriebau from comment #1)
> I was able to reproduce this:
> 
> 1. Open the Browser Console
> 
> 2. Go to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/login
> 
> 3. Click into the password field
> 
> For each new tab i do this, i see:
> 
> (/path/to/firefox-60.1.0esr/firefox:11730): dconf-WARNING : 18:09:31.042:
> Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied

I'm still have this issue.

Comment 3

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

(I just moved the bug to the right component. No idea what’s happening.)

Comment 4

[VA]

I have noticed this today for the first time and was able to reproduce it on many web-sites (every site with a password field) even on gmail.com. It seems to be related to the password management.

I did some further investigation to clear it.

Reproduce it:

1. Start linux terminal.

2. Run firefox

3. Open any website with a login/authentication form. E.g. open gmail.com

4. You don't need to enter a username, just go to the password field (gmail.com requires a username first)

5. Upon entrance to the password field this error appears in the console.

(/usr/lib/firefox/firefox:1564): dconf-WARNING **: 22:53:26.328: Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied

6. The error will appear only once per tab, you have to open the same url in a new tab to force it to appear again.

It occurs even in a newly created and empty firefox profile with default configuration for a new profile.

I think it also occurs on websites that have hidden password fields.

To me it seems suspicious that firefox tries to access a file in snapd when it is not installed via snap.

Comment 5

[VA]

(In reply to ajanovski from comment #4)

Forgot to mention that I use Ubuntu 19.04 and firefox from the official Ubuntu repositories:

firefox: Installed: 66.0.3+build1-0ubuntu1

Comment 6

[Allan Laal]

also in Firefox Developer Edition v 69:

(/opt/firefox-developer-edition/firefox-bin:16340): dconf-WARNING **: Unable to open /var/lib/snapd/desktop/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied

Comment 7

[Olivier Duclos]

On ubuntu systems, the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS contains the path "/var/lib/snapd/desktop". i guess that's why Firefox is trying to read it.

Comment 8

[^Rooker]

I know this is an old thread, but I just saw this because my ~/.xsession-errors file filled up my HDD (67 GB logfile! O.O)
Quite fresh setup on Xubuntu 18.04 with Firefox v77.0.1 (from default Ubuntu repositories).

Seems like an Ubuntu issue, but I couldn't find a corresponding issue report on Launchpad. Does anyone know if it has been reported there already?

I'd be grateful for any information about how to proceed with this :)

Comment 9

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug has a release status flag that shows some version of Firefox is affected, thus it will be considered confirmed.