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

On Monday 29 October 2007 14:53, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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

did a chown -R on var/tmp. then started ff and got some error messages.
session as follows:

an:/$ cd tmp
kloro@debian:/tmp$ ls -l
total 1
srw-rw---- 1 kloro audio 0 2007-10-29 12:17
alsa-dmix-3591-1193685441-909804=
srwxrwxrwx 1 cwnn nogroup 0 2007-10-29 12:15 cd_sockV4=
drwx------ 3 kloro kloro 72 2007-10-29 12:16 gconfd-kloro/
drwx------ 2 kloro kloro 96 2007-10-29 14:53 kde-kloro/
drwx------ 2 root root 48 2007-10-29 14:06 kde-root/
drwx------ 3 kloro kloro 504 2007-10-29 14:19 ksocket-kloroyr3bC5/
drwx------ 2 root root 48 2007-10-29 14:06 ksocket-root/
drwx------ 2 kloro kloro 528 2007-10-29 14:09 orbit-kloro/
drwx------ 2 kloro kloro 48 2007-10-29 12:30 plugtmp/
drwx------ 2 kloro kloro 80 2007-10-29 12:20 ssh-SJYMtO3390/
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-29 12:15 td_sockV4=
kloro@debian:/tmp$ sudo chown root -R
chown: missing operand after `root'
Try `chown --help' for more information.
kloro@debian:/tmp$ sudo chown -R root
chown: missing operand after `root'
Try `chown --help' for more information.
kloro@debian:/tmp$ man chown
Reformatting chown(1), please wait...
kloro@debian:/tmp$ sudo chown -R root *
kloro@debian:/tmp$ ls -l
total 1
srw-rw---- 1 root audio 0 2007-10-29 12:17
alsa-dmix-3591-1193685441-909804=
srwxrwxrwx 1 root nogroup 0 2007-10-29 12:15 cd_sockV4=
drwx------ 3 root kloro 72 2007-10-29 12:16 gconfd-kloro/
drwx------ 2 root kloro 96 2007-10-29 14:53 kde-kloro/
drwx------ 2 root root 48 2007-10-29 14:06 kde-root/
drwx------ 3 root kloro 504 2007-10-29 14:19 ksocket-kloroyr3bC5/
drwx------ 2 root root 48 2007-10-29 14:06 ksocket-root/
drwx------ 2 root kloro 528 2007-10-29 14:09 orbit-kloro/
drwx------ 2 root kloro 48 2007-10-29 12:30 plugtmp/
drwx------ 2 root kloro 80 2007-10-29 12:20 ssh-SJYMtO3390/
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-29 12:15 td_sockV4=
kloro@debian:/tmp$ ff
kloro@debian:/tmp$ GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some
possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or
you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR
file '/tmp/gconfd-kloro/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located:
Permission denied 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-kloro/lock/ior' not opened
successfully, no gconfd located: Permission denied)

** (Gecko:7526): WARNING **: Owner of /tmp/orbit-kloro is not the current user

GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are
that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for
information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-kloro/lock/ior' not opened
successfully, no gconfd located: Permission denied 2: IOR
file '/tmp/gconfd-kloro/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located:
Permission denied)

kloro@debian:/tmp$

kloro@debian:/$ ls -l
total 151
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2488 2007-09-24 15:01 bin/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 928 2006-08-19 12:46 boot/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10098 2006-08-17 11:48 boot-log*
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 48 2006-04-05 13:58 c:/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 48 2006-03-24 19:03 cd/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-12-19 02:57 cdrom -> media/cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 13220 2007-10-29 12:16 dev/
drwxrwxrwx 157 root root 8736 2007-10-29 14:08 etc/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18328 2007-02-03 13:29 exp.k3b*
drwxrwxrwx 6 root staff 144 2006-10-30 14:16 home/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-12-19 02:57 initrd/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2006-04-16 01:47 initrd.img ->
boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2005-12-19 02:59 initrd.img.old ->
boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386*
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4744 2007-09-24 15:18 lib/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1777 2006-09-22 18:07 lotsaclocks.css
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 128 2007-01-12 14:37 media/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2004-12-15 14:55 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-12-19 02:57 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x 112 root root 0 2007-10-29 12:14 proc/
drwxr-xr-x 54 root root 2608 2007-10-13 12:40 root/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4768 2007-09-24 15:02 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2007-07-22 15:33 sD/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-12-19 02:57 srv/
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 2007-10-29 12:14 sys/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82422 2007-02-07 12:17 t
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 919 2006-06-02 11:06 test.k3b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 2006-09-15 18:46 tfs/
drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 600 2007-10-29 15:25 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 312 2006-04-14 23:51 usr/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 781 2007-10-28 20:56 v*
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 2005-12-19 03:45 var/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-04-16 01:47 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2005-12-19 02:59 vmlinuz.old ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386*


tom



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