Bug 131095 – after update to firefox 1.0.8 all my firefox-preferences are gone

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas Höhmann 2006-04-24 06:55:10 UTC]

troll ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64 -mmmx -msse2 -msse"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64 -mmmx -msse2 -msse"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/g-cpan"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X accessibility acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bitmapfonts bonobo bootsplash bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups curl dbus dri dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam festival ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl idn imagemagick imlib isdnlog java jpeg junit kdexdeltas kerberos lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres pppd python quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session speech spell spl sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts truetypefonts type1-fonts type1fonts udev unicode usb vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib video_cards_i810 linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Patryk Rzadzinski 2006-04-24 11:37:49 UTC]

Works fine for me. Is your profile in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ accessible? Firefox stores all settings there. If you haven't changed the profile, then it should be 9_random_chars.default. 

[Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2006-05-02 16:21:08 UTC]

Get back with us when you ready to provide more assistance to resolve your problem.

[Comment 3 Andreas Höhmann 2006-05-03 09:14:05 UTC]

sorry for the late answer. 
my problem is fixed. 
it was no bug :) my profile was locked *oh men*
sorry x 1000!