Bug#902622: I am also affected by this issue

[Diane Trout]

> 
>ln -s / file:
> 
> is an ugly workaround that does work.

In case it isn't obvious to others, this symlink work-around needs to
be put in whatever will be the current working directory for firefox.
The users' home directory is a good guess.

Diane

Bug#902622: I am also affected by this issue

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

I'm also affected. The /usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/fr.aff file does
exist, strace shows:

31482 access("/usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/fr.aff", F_OK 
31482 <... access resumed> )= 0

31482 stat("/usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/fr.aff",  
31482 <... stat resumed> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18480, ...}) = 0

But later on:

31482 openat(AT_FDCWD, "file:///usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/fr.aff", O_RDONLY) 
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
31482 openat(AT_FDCWD, "file:///usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/fr.aff.hz", 
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
31482 write(2, "error: file:///usr/lib/firefox/d"..., 64) = 64

no wonder :)

   ln -s / file:

is an ugly workaround that does work.

Samuel

Bug#902622: I am also affected by this issue

[Jan Janský]

I am also affected by this bug since 61beta releases installed from
Debian repositories.

The problem is with system dictionaries as well as with those installed
as addons.  When activating spell checking the following error is
printed to the console (here trying to use czech dictionary, but it is
equivalent with all others):

System dictionaries:

error: file:///usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/cs_CZ.aff: cannot open
error: file:///usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/cs_CZ.dic: cannot open
error: file:///usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/cs_CZ.aff: cannot open

Dictionaries installed as an addon (profile directory substituted):

error:
file:///home/mister/.mozilla/firefox/[profileID]/extensions/cs@dictiona
ries.addons.mozilla.org/dictionaries/cs.aff: cannot open
error:
file:///home/mister/.mozilla/firefox/[profileID]/extensions/cs@dictiona
ries.addons.mozilla.org/dictionaries/cs.dic: cannot open
error:
file:///home/mister/.mozilla/firefox/[profileID]/extensions/cs@dictiona
ries.addons.mozilla.org/dictionaries/cs.aff: cannot open

There is an upstream bug report here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469740

Regards,
Jan Janský