49070 – Firefox does not work with GNOME 2.6 session handling

Bug 49070 - Firefox does not work with GNOME 2.6 session handling

Summary: Firefox does not work with GNOME 2.6 session handling

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Aron Griffis (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-04-26 13:34 UTC by Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-11-13 15:57 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-26 13:34:48 UTC

I have net-www/mozilla-firefox-0.8-r2 installed, compiled with +gnome +gtk2 +ipv6 +java -moznoxft +truetype +xinerama.

I run GNOME 2.6.

GNOME 2.6's session handling does not manage to start firefox when a session is 'restarted', ie logout, then login. It starts plain mozilla instead.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Start up with a "clean" GNOME session (clean up "Current Session" in Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Sessions, then logout + login to GNOME).
2) Start firefox 
3) Make certain you have "Automatically save changes to session" in the Session manager.
4) Log out + Log in
5) At this point, I get mozilla starting, not firefox(!)

At closer inspection, the session manager will save a reference to /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin in its session, and will try to start this upon login. 

When I run /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin the command prompt, it starts mozilla, not firefox.

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2004-05-08 05:51:03 UTC

Firefox does work with gnome session handling 2.6 it appears to be fubar'd for the user tho, I have logged into to root and was able to run firefox without problem but as a normal user it refuses to do anything.

Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2004-05-08 06:11:38 UTC

run ls -a in your user dir see if you have a .phoenix dir, for some reason firefox wasn't creating mine I created it and setup a default profile and it is working fine once again ... I am gonna be doing a debug later today to find out exactly what is wrong.

Comment 3 Keith Pelley 2004-08-11 08:30:40 UTC

Does this happen with gnome 2.6.2 and mozilla-firefox 0.9.3 for you? Because I have gnome 2.6.2 and mozilla-firefox 0.9.3 and when I restart a session mozilla-firefox does start.

Comment 4 carlos 2004-09-03 12:43:04 UTC

I have gnome 2.6.2 and mozilla-firefox 0.9.3, however, 'gnome' does not appear in the use options (+ or -) if I do: emerge mozilla-firefox. Therefore there is no option of session management whatsoever.   I'm using Gentoo Athlon XP.

Comment 5 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-13 15:57:12 UTC

According to comment #3 it sounds like this bug is fixed in current versions, closing.