I used the standard 1.0.7 Ubuntu package and it worked fine. I have tried the standard 1.0.6 openSUSE package and the upgraded 1.07 packages with
Ok, sorry it took me so long to reply to this, I have been too busy to get to try this. I downloaded and ran Firefox 1.5b2 right from www.mozilla.org . The same error occurs if I try to use a profile from a vfat partition (like I said in an earlier post, the error wording is slightly different in 1.5, but I think it is the exact same error). I tried moving the profile to the /boot partition just to test it, and it works fine from there. I also tried as root and a normal user (both with full access to the partition), so the problem is either with the way Firefox is creating the lock, or the way 10.0 is allowing access. I have been running 1.5b2 on WinXP Pro since it was released with no problems. Same basic setup, Windows partition is NTFS, profile is on a FAT32 partition. Thanks for the help, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Rosenauer [mailto:stark@suse.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:09 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Firefox profile not working on a vfat partition. Permissions I think. On 2005-10-19 at 14:25:12 -0400, Michael A. Elkevizth wrote (shortened): the
same result. I also tried the 1.5beta2 package found here
http://ftp.softnet.tuc.gr/pub/linux/suse/projects/mozilla/experimental/10.0/
The error message is worded different, but is still the same. Not proper access to the profile.
-----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Rosenauer [mailto:stark@suse.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:39 AM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Firefox profile not working on a vfat partition. Permissions I think.
On 2005-10-18 at 17:02:38 -0400, Michael A. Elkevizth wrote (shortened):
I've installed openSuse 10.0 and am having some trouble getting everything setup properly. I was running Suse 9.3 Pro and had it setup to share my Firefox profile located on a vfat partition so I can use the same
on
winXP and on Linux. All work well in 9.3, but with 10.0 I keep getting an error from Firefox (and Thunderbird also) stating that "Firefox cannot use the profile "default" because it is in use. Please choose another
or
create a new one". This error appears to be being caused because Firefox cannot gain access to the profile properly. The same error will occur if you point the profile to somewhere you don't have permissions for. The
The reason I asked you to test a 1.5b2 build from www.mozilla.org is that there was a change in the profile locking mechanism. We already have the 1.5 behaviour backported to 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 So if a 1.5b2 build from mozilla.org shows the same behaviour as our 1.0.7 package it's a regression in Firefox 1.5. So please report back if the above works or not. profile profile problem
is that I DO have permissions to the share and I cannot figure out why this is happening. I have tested my setup with Ubuntu 5.10 and all works properly with that. Here is the fstab line that mounts the share:
Which version of Firefox do you have on Ubuntu? Could you please try a mozilla.org build of Firefox 1.0.7 on your 10.0? If you are on it, it would also be interesting what you get with a 1.5b2 build from mozilla.org.
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