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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