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
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