383273 - Refuses to start w/ symlink'ed profile data due silly broken "permission check"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Enrico Weigelt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070603 SeaMonkey/1.1.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070603 SeaMonkey/1.1.2


FF refuses to start with that message:


No running windows found
Error launching firefox:

There are files in your profile that are owned by a user other than
nekrad.  firefox can't execute in this condition.  Here are some of
the files that I found:
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/extensions
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/bookmarkbackups
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/secmod.db
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/Cache
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/hostperm.1
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/extensions.ini
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/localstore.rdf
    /home/nekrad/.mozilla/firefox/k5eu0o2p.default/signons2.txt
    ...

The listed files are symlinks to the correct files.
I *need* it to move off these temporary files from my coda filesystem to get moz illa starting up in an reasonable time. 

Seamonkey works quite fine that way, but firefox has an silly and useless "test" which fails and refuses any operation.


I was not yet able to find the source of that crash, otherwise I already would have kicked off the whole code. 

Until that bug is fixed, FF is totally unusable for me.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[timeless]

firefox -P
select create profile
select a name
select choose folder and select a path to some other file system

why are you such an important user that you have to advocate your personal problems in a database designed for technical issues?

Comment 2

[Enrico Weigelt]

Ah, now I've found the source of the problem. 

Probably blamed the wrong folks, actually it's bug in Gentoo's "mozilla-launcher".

Comment 3

[Wolf [:wolf]]

If the bug is Gentoo specific, file a bug in their database, (http://bugs.gentoo.org/), feel free to reference that number here.

This is not a mozilla bug, so..
--> Invalid.

Comment 4

[Enrico Weigelt]

See: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180935

Solved it now. 

It was clearly an Gentoo issue, had nothing to do with mozilla itself.