Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
On Monday 29 October 2007 13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:05:34PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens.
(i recently screwed up the permissions on my system.) but if i start it
as root ('sudo'), or use iceape, all is ok.

what specifically happens? do you get a save dialog at all? does it
seem to save but leave no file?

regardless of the above, based on your whole permissions history, I'd
say you should remove and reinstall firefox as a good starting point.

A

no save dialog, tho' nothing like a complaint that it can't save. it acts in
other words as if a good save except that nothing gets save,

except that saving the page should pop up a save dialog, so its
definitely not working properly.

BUT if i look in
the ff error console, i find:

Error: null has no properties
Source File: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.js
Line: 545

Error: not well-formed
Source File: file:///home/kloro/.mozilla/firefox/uvxnoydh.Default%20User/\
downloads.rdf
Line: 3125, Column: 36
Source Code:
<RDF:Description RDF:about="/tmp/É-Å(Þ·²ÎÒÒ.mp3"---

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "ServiceManager::\
GetService returned failure code:" nsresult: \
"0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: \
"JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/\
downloads.js :: Startup :: line 476" data: no]

Error: null has no properties
Source File: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.js
Line: 545


I don't know about this at all, but below...



also, when i did reinstall, i got the message:

Reading changelogs... Done
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-rootcohchy"
Error: "/tmp/kde-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-kloroyr3bC5" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-rootcohchy"
apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n]?

what are the perms of /var itself and its subdirs? mine looks like
this:


andrew@basement:~/.emacs.d$ ls -ld /var
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1.0K 2007-08-04 09:05 /var
andrew@basement:~/.emacs.d$ ls -l /var
total 26K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2007-10-29 06:25 backups
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1.0K 2007-10-16 18:08 cache
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1.0K 2006-09-26 16:59 games
drwxr-xr-x 52 root root 1.0K 2007-10-18 11:23 lib
drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 1.0K 2004-12-15 14:55 local
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1.0K 2007-10-19 09:49 lock
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 3.0K 2007-10-29 11:52 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K 2006-07-28 18:39 lost+found
drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 1.0K 2007-10-29 14:00 mail
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K 2006-07-28 18:40 opt
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1.0K 2007-10-29 11:46 run
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1.0K 2007-09-06 11:48 spool
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 1.0K 2007-10-29 11:52 tmp

anything under /var/tmp should be owned by root (UID 0), and not you
(UID 1000, probably), so start there.

hth.

A

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