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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #624270,
regarding iceweasel creates temporary .part file for local files opened w/o
removal
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 4.0-3
Severity: normal
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Hi,
when I open a random PDF file (I suspect this is also the case with any
other file types that are being displayed by an external program) stored
locally with iceweasel (4.0) a file /tmp/${randomstring}.pdf.part gets
crated and never deleted - though xpdf is being passed the local file
name.
Steps to reproduce:
$ mkdir footest
$ cd footest
$ echo '<a href="foo.pdf">foo</a>' > index.html
$ wget -O foo.pdf $somerandompdf
$ iceweasel index.html
[click on the PDF link in iceweasel, PDF viewer gets started]
# lsof | grep xpdf
[...]
xpdf 4321 yath 4r REG 254,0 1071125 558179
/home/yath/footest/foo.pdf
Original file --^
$ ls -ltr /tmp | grep -F .pdf.part | tail -n 1
- -rw------- 1 yath yath 1071125 Apr 27 02:12 1NBshKOZ.pdf.part
[quit pdf viewer]
$ ls -ltr /tmp | grep -F .pdf.part | tail -n 1
- -rw------- 1 yath yath 1071125 Apr 27 02:12 1NBshKOZ.pdf.part
The .pdf.part file remains and it is unclear to me why it is created in
the first place. It appears to be a copy as it gets a different inode#
and is a real problem for me as I sometimes open PDF files from an
encfs-mounted directory via iceweasel - copying the file to /tmp makes
the encryption useless.
There is a bug in bugzilla related to that:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470138
Though it's from 2008 I hope to get this fixed.
Thanks,
Sebastian
- -- Package-specific info:
- -- Plugins information
Name: DivX Browser Plug-In
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
Package: mozilla-mplayer
Status: enabled
Name: Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
Package: realplayer
Status: enabled
Name: QuickTime Plug-in 7.4.5
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-qt.so
Package: mozilla-mplayer
Status: enabled
Name: RealPlayer 9
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-rm.so
Package: mozilla-mplayer
Status: enabled
Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled
Name: Windows Media Player Plug-in
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
Package: mozilla-mplayer
Status: enabled
Name: mplayerplug-in 3.55
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so
Package: mozilla-mplayer
Status: enabled
- -- Addons package information
ii mozilla-mplaye 1:3.55-0.0 MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
ii realplayer 1:11.0.0-0.2 RealPlayer 10 based on the open source Helix
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-5 GCC support library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.7-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-10 /proc file system utilities
ii xulrunner-2.0 2.0-2 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.9+dfsg-1+b1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
ii ttf-lyx 2.0.0~rc3-2 TrueType versions of some TeX font
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages xulrunner-2.0 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.23-3 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 2.0.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.8-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-5 GCC support library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2- 1.2.14-4 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmozjs4d 2.0-2 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.7-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.9.with.ckbi.1.82-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpixman-1-0 0.21.6-2 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii libreadline6 6.2-1 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.6.2-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstartup-notif 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libvpx0 0.9.6-1 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages xulrunner-2.0 suggests:
ii libcanberra0 0.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.92-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.3-1 The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.4-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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