Re: Fresh Moz1.7 inst. nogo for all but root
Andrew Schultz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Paul Landauer wrote: > Thank you very much Darren, > Strace really is my friend! I found that mozilla could not write to > ~/.mozilla. The ownership of the directory was root:root. I assume it was > created when I installed mozilla the first time using > sudo ./mozilla-installer. Is that a bad way to install software? > Anyway I deleted ~/.mozilla, ran mozilla, and all's well. Never, never, never install (with the installer) or use Mozilla with sudo (never!). sudo does not set the HOME environment variable, which Mozilla uses to get the profile location. So it runs as root with root privileges, but uses your profile directory. The Mozilla (SeaMonkey) installer won't screw it up as bad as the Firefox installer, but it can still cause what you saw. su works just fine. -- Andrew Schultz [email protected] http://www.sens.buffalo.edu/~ajs42/