www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.8 doesn't start failing in firefox-bin: $ /usr/bin/firefox No running windows found firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1) same in safe mode: $ /usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1) same with clean ~/.mozilla enabled USE flags: java mozdevelop Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /usr/bin/firefox Actual Results: firefox fails to start Expected Results: firefox should start as usual
+1
(In reply to comment #1) > +1 > i have the same error but not using any use-flags
emerge --info please. Also, does www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.8 work for you?
09:10:30 <+armin76> jakub: bug 196893 it's due to paludis 09:10:58 <+armin76> the tarball has wrong permissions and paludis doesn't fix them
confirming that using emerge instead of paludis has fixed the issue.
Here's a workaround that works for pkgcore, perhaps for paludis as well: chmod -R o+r /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
(In reply to comment #6) > Here's a workaround that works for pkgcore, perhaps for paludis as well: chmod > -R o+r /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/ > Confirm that this fixes firefox when installed by paludis, with several use flags. Thanks. Was this a SWAG, or did you derive the fix from strace? If the latter, that would make a great HOWTO article somewhere. Thanks, Chris
Thanks Donnie! `chmod -R go+r /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox` fixed it for me. I installed using Paludis.
This was fixed in Paludis 0.26.0_alpha1 for bug #190746. http://paludis.pioto.org/trac/ticket/426