Bug 67031

Summary:	sudo emerge firefox without -H puts root-owned .mozilla in users' home directory
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	michael <michael>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description michael@smith-li.com 2004-10-10 19:32:30 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-14 18:22:44 UTC

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