Re: Firefox lock file?

NoOp wrote:

From the looks of that it appears that your home directory is pretty
messed up. After reading:

man chown

You may want to just change all ownership of everything in your *home*
directory after you are sure of the owner and group necessary to do so:

Do:

ls ~/ -l

and note the user/group. For instance if I do:

ls /home/aa (a user on my system)
the output will be something to the affect of:

$ ls /home/aa -l
total 11076
-rw------- 1 bb abc 14114816 2008-12-07 15:28 core
-rw------- 1 bb abc 14217216 2008-12-01 15:39 core.12198
drwxr-xr-x 2 bb abc 4096 2008-05-26 11:12 Desktop

Where bb is the 'user' and 'abc' is the group that abc belongs to.

So now, to change your home directory ownership to 'ray'

sudo -i
chown -R ray:ray /home/ray

The above assumes that your home directory is home/ray. If it is
something else then change accordingly - the command is:

chown -R <owner>:<group> <file/directory>

The above will change the ownership of all files in your home directory
with the exception of .gvfs. An easy way to look at the ownership of
your files via Nautilus is to add the 'Owner' column to your Nautilus
(Places|Home Folder): Edit|Preferences|List Columns| tick 'Owner'. Now
whenever you view your files/directories/folders via Nautilus you will
see who the owner is.

Research it first, read 'man chown' etc., *and backup your home folder
first* - wait for awhile to see if someone comments on this post to
correct me (I've been known to be wrong in the past, but think I'm
pretty right on this one:-). Also be aware that some files in your
/home/<username> that may need root ownership (there should be *very
few*) will be affected changed as well. However, the ownership.txt file
can give you a place to go back you for those files if need be.



Hello,

Well, I've gotten a lot of sleep, and now that I feel better some, I'm
back to this. I ran the chown command on the .mozilla folder, and
Firefox still refuses to start. Also, every time I run Nautilus, then
exit it, I get notified that Nautilus has crashed, so I'm giving up, and
downloading the newest 8.04-2 iso and preparing to re-install Ubuntu.

I'm having to use Seamonkey to get the download. It wouldn't create a
profile until I ran the chown command on the .mozilla folder, but now
has, so I can at least surf again.

I evidently messed up my system too much to easily recover it. I have a
"Desktop" folder in the root folder which is empty and will not delete,
and several other oddities to the present file structure, and I'd just
like to start over and make sure everything is correct.

Thanks for all the help. I've learned quite a bit more about the
wonderful command line in Linux from this.

See you again after I get re-installed. 8-)

Later, Ray Parrish

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