After fresh update (from stable to stable) to www-client/firefox-bin-52.5.0 I got during the startup of the new browser following message: "Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator." there is onlyone button with 'ok'. After pressing it. the browser is closed. things I found out: strace shows: 17556 open("/opt/firefox/all-gentoo.js", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) ls -latrh /opt/firefox/all-gentoo.js -rw------- 1 root root 501 25. Nov 10:15 /opt/firefox/all-gentoo.js grep gentoo /opt/firefox/defaults/pref/local-settings.js pref("general.config.filename", "all-gentoo.js"); ls -la /opt/firefox/defaults/pref/local-settings.js -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 25. Nov 10:15 /opt/firefox/defaults/pref/local-settings.js After setting chmod 755 /opt/firefox/all-gentoo.js , firefox is starting successfully. There are some changes during the install process which caused that new behavior?
That's weird... I'll look into that further for sure. FYI you should chmod 644 rather than 755 as it should not have execute permissions.b
OK so i've looked into this a little and I have no idea why that file ended up with the permissions that it did on your system. The ebuild has a simple 'cp' which should use the standard umask and give you 0644 permissions. I am going to change that to use newins rather than cp, but it shouldn't make a difference regardless. I've also re-emerged this package multiple times and have confirmed that all-gentoo.js is installed with 0644 permissions. If I had to guess, I would say that you experienced this issue because you must have changed your default umask and that it is somehow affecting the emerge.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d0e2a6d201308923905c1f221f6cb855a4ba258d commit d0e2a6d201308923905c1f221f6cb855a4ba258d Author: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-11-29 17:38:48 +0000 Commit: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-11-29 17:44:31 +0000 www-client/firefox-bin: install all-gentoo.js using newins It may be possible for the cp that was previously used to stage all-gentoo.js into /opt/firefox/ to befall permissions issues due to a custom umask or whatnot. Using newins should keep that from occurring, plus its cleaner and more ebuild-ish Bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/638882 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.3 www-client/firefox-bin/Manifest | 344 ++++++++++----------- ...-52.5.0.ebuild => firefox-bin-52.5.0-r1.ebuild} | 5 +- ...-bin-57.0.ebuild => firefox-bin-57.0-r1.ebuild} | 5 +- 3 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-)}
Thank you for analyze this. I have changed following things: /etc/profileprofile: # 077 would be more secure, but 022 is generally quite realistic umask 077 /etc/skel/.bashrc: umask 077 used user for firefox calling: has no .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc does not contain umask statement
(In reply to egon from comment #4) > Thank you for analyze this. I have changed following things: > /etc/profileprofile: > # 077 would be more secure, but 022 is generally quite realistic > umask 077 > > /etc/skel/.bashrc: > umask 077 > > used user for firefox calling: > has no .bash_logout .bash_profile > .bashrc does not contain umask statement That would indeed do it. I'm not sure which file would affect what happens with emerge (likely the first one) but I could see these umask changes causing issues with a number of packages. Regardless I would like to know that the firefox and thunderbird ebuilds are not affected by a custom umask setting, so if you could re-emerge firefox-bin-52.5.0 and let me know that would be great and then we can close this bug.
updated to www-client/firefox-bin-52.5.0-r1 and startup is ok
Thanks!
