Firefox dies without a useful error message if ~/.mozilla is unreadable (chowned by root). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ sudo emerge firefox 2. $ firefox Actual Results: Firefox said 'no running windows found' and quit. I finally figured out that .mozilla was unreadable by my user because it was owned by root. Chowning it or deleting it fixed the problem. Expected Results: .mozilla should have been created when I started firefox as user, not during emerge. Somewhat related to bug 56009.
Thanks, fixed in mozilla-firefox-1.0-r2 without bumping the revision. Also fixed in mozilla-thunderbird-0.9-r2. mozilla seamonkey seems to use a different method. --- mozilla-firefox-1.0-r2.ebuild 14 Nov 2004 03:27:04 -0000 1.1 +++ mozilla-firefox-1.0-r2.ebuild 15 Nov 2004 02:15:42 -0000 @@ -154,9 +154,14 @@ env-update # Register Components and Chrome + # + # Bug 67031: Set HOME=~root in case this is being emerged via sudo. + # Otherwise the following commands will create ~/.mozilla owned by root + # and 700 perms, which makes subsequent execution of firefox by user + # impossible. einfo "Registering Components and Chrome..." - LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/regxpcom - LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/regchrome + HOME=~root LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/regxpcom + HOME=~root LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/regchrome # Fix permissions of component registry chmod 0644 ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/components/compreg.dat
