190597 - after installing calendar, I cannot open any new windows (browser, mail, calendar, etc)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Dean Tsou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

1. Installation from the webpage proceeds without any problems - done as root
2. Open Mozilla - as non-root user
3. The browser window appears, but if I try to open any component of Mozilla
that requires a new window (such as a new browser window, the mail/news client,
address book, chatzilla, calendar, etc) nothing happens.
Note 1: as a root user, this problem does not occur.
Note 2: as a non-root user, I can open non-browser component of Mozilla by
specifying the command line switch, but once that component of Mozilla is opened
up, I cannot open any other window from there either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installation from the webpage proceeds without any problems - done as root
2. Open Mozilla - as non-root user
3. The browser window appears, but if I try to open any component of Mozilla
that requires a new window (such as a new browser window, the mail/news client,
address book, chatzilla, calendar, etc) nothing happens.
Actual Results:  
No new windows will open

Expected Results:  
A new window should open containing the requested mozilla component

Comment 1

[Mike Potter]

Please chown the directory to yourself before installing calendar, and then
always run as yourself.  The permissions for files are incorrect when running
the calendar as yourself, if you've installed it as root.

Comment 2

[Dean Tsou]

Same symptoms still occur after doing

as root> chown my_username:my_group -R /usr/local/mozilla

Comment 3

[Mike Potter]

What I did before installing Mozilla is to create the /usr/local/mozilla
directory first, then chown that directory to myself.  Then, install Mozilla and
then install the calendar.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Sunbird Only. Be afraid for your sanity!