Bug 196893 – www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.8 doesn't start when installed by paludis

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vladimir Pouzanov 2007-10-24 08:31:25 UTC]

www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.8 doesn't start failing in firefox-bin:
$ /usr/bin/firefox
No running windows found
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1)

same in safe mode:
$ /usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1)

same with clean ~/.mozilla

enabled USE flags: java mozdevelop

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/bin/firefox

Actual Results:  
firefox fails to start

Expected Results:  
firefox should start as usual

[Comment 1 Vladimir Kirillov 2007-10-24 08:32:50 UTC]

+1

[Comment 2 Vladimir Kirillov 2007-10-24 08:35:29 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> +1
> 

i have the same error
but not using any use-flags

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-24 09:03:51 UTC]

emerge --info please. Also, does www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.8 work for you?

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-24 09:30:15 UTC]

09:10:30 <+armin76> jakub: bug 196893 it's due to paludis
09:10:58 <+armin76> the tarball has wrong permissions and paludis doesn't fix them

[Comment 5 Vladimir Pouzanov 2007-10-24 14:42:17 UTC]

confirming that using emerge instead of paludis has fixed the issue.

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2007-10-24 20:28:30 UTC]

Here's a workaround that works for pkgcore, perhaps for paludis as well: chmod -R o+r /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/

[Comment 7 Chris Smith 2007-10-25 10:49:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Here's a workaround that works for pkgcore, perhaps for paludis as well: chmod
> -R o+r /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
> 

Confirm that this fixes firefox when installed by paludis, with several use flags.  Thanks.  Was this a SWAG, or did you derive the fix from strace?  If the latter, that would make a great HOWTO article somewhere.  Thanks, Chris

[Comment 8 Andrew Evans 2007-10-27 20:45:14 UTC]

Thanks Donnie! `chmod -R go+r /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox` fixed it for me. I installed using Paludis.

[Comment 9 Bo Ørsted Andresen (RETIRED) 2008-03-02 00:34:23 UTC]

This was fixed in Paludis 0.26.0_alpha1 for bug #190746.

http://paludis.pioto.org/trac/ticket/426