When a user who is not a member of the portage group tries to print, thunderbird can't write a temp file to /var/tmp, causing the printing to fail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login as a user who is not a member of the 'portage' group. 2. Open thunderbird. 3. Right-click an email and select 'Print'. Actual Results: Nothing. The line 'Cannot write temp file' is written to the console. Expected Results: It should have written its temp file to /tmp instead of /var/tmp, which is owned by portage:portage. When I add the user to the portage group, everything works fine. -- niklas@zuul niklas $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks prelink sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X Xaw3d aavm acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts async audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bootspla cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cups dga dmxdv dvd encode f77 fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flac foomaticdb freetype gd gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib imlib2 java jikes jpeg junit kde kerberos krb4 ldaplibg++ libwww lufsusermount mad maildir md5sum mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 music ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis openal opengl pam pdflib perl picpng ppds propolice python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype usb wmf x86 xface xine xinerama xmlxml2 xmms xosd xprint xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia"
My thunderbird version: niklas@zuul niklas $ emerge -s thunderbird Searching... [ Results for search key : thunderbird ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird Latest version available: 0.8 Latest version installed: 0.8 Size of downloaded files: 32,530 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Description: Thunderbird Mail Client License: MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1
This bug can be closed now, see bug 96005
Somewhere something changed the ownership of my /var/tmp directory to portage:portage. Now that I've known that this is not what a default installation has, I'm closing this.
