275079 - Firefox only opens if user is root.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Jim Calfee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Not sure this is my problem or your problem.  Running Mozilla 1.7.3 (works fine)
and firefox 1.0. Seemed to work fine as long as run under root but when under
some other user name, get the following:
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
until if finally runs out of datasources to try.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As root, install firefox in dir /usr/lib/firefox-1.0
2. Normally, would be run from firefox script in /usr/bin but fails even when run 
   from firefox directory manually.
3. Works in both cases if you are root.

Actual Results:  
Got the following messages until ^c or it runs out of data soruces.

Expected Results:  
Start Firefox

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

check your permissions. It should be rw on everything in ~/.mozilla. Also is it
a clean install or was there a profile left (in ~/.mozilla/firefox or in
~/.phoenix) from older installations.

And it worked for me with Firefox 1.0

Comment 2

[Jim Calfee]

(In reply to comment #1)
> check your permissions. It should be rw on everything in ~/.mozilla. Also is it
> a clean install or was there a profile left (in ~/.mozilla/firefox or in
> ~/.phoenix) from older installations.
> 
> And it worked for me with Firefox 1.0

Everything in ~/.mozilla is rw. All entries show the owner and group to be
correct. It was a clean install but there was a version of Mozilla 1.7.3 loaded
and still is.  I tried removing ~/.mozilla and letting it recreate it but to no
avail.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Also delete (rename) ~/.phoenix and ~/.firefox if you have them.
Check if firefox is restarting itself. There was a "infinite restart" bug around
0.9. Also if you feel comfortable with simple debugging, try inserting dump()
statements in firefox-1.0/components/nsExtensionManager.js to see where it's
failing.

Comment 4

[Jim Calfee]

No names to delete and it does not appear to be restarting.  The location for
the call to function _ensureDS() occurs in following code:

 checkForMismatches: function nsExtensionManager_checkForMismatches ()
  {
    var needsRestart = false;

    this._disableObsoleteExtensions();

    // Check to see if the version of the application that is being started
    // now is the same one that was started last time.
    var currAppVersion = gPref.getCharPref(PREF_EM_APP_EXTENSIONS_VERSION);
    try {
      var lastAppVersion = gPref.getCharPref(PREF_EM_LAST_APP_VERSION);
    }
    catch (e) {}
    if (currAppVersion != lastAppVersion) {
      // Version mismatch, we're have to load the extensions datasource
      // and do version checking. Time hit here doesn't matter since this
      // doesn't happen all that often.
      dump("currentappversion ->"+currAppVersion+"<-\n");
      dump("lastAppVersion ->"+lastAppVersion+"<-\n");
      this._ensureDS();

The values returned are as follows:

currentappversion ->1.0<-
lastAppVersion ->undefined<-
*** loading the extensions datasource

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Double-check ~/.mozilla/firefox/whatever/extensions/extensions.rdf is readable.

Do all of the '*** loading the extensions datasource' come from there?
Could you check what's the exit point for checkForMismatches - the return
statement or an exception [just insert a "try {" in the beginning and a "}
catch(e) { dump(e) }" after "return"]. What's the value of needsRestart on return?

Comment 6

[Jim Calfee]

I am assuming the problem is on my end. I have deleted everything I can find and
reinstalled. It now works. Thanks for your help and you can kill the bug report.
/Jim

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

okay, but do you know what caused this, wrong permissions or something else?

Comment 8

[Jim Calfee]

I don't have a clue. Everything looked fine.  As a matter of fact when I 
installed one of the try - catch debugging efforts.  It inidcated the there 
was an access problem - didn't say with what, but then started firefox.

The only difference between the original install and the last install is that 
I was logged on as root for the first and su - to root from my normal logon 
for the second.

Duh!