Carsten,

Thanks for your thoughtful response! Sorry if  in my debugging I rang
the Thunderbird alarm bell.  Only later did I realize this was an
AppArmor profile issue.
Thanks again,

Best regards,

David Campbell


On Fri, Nov 23, 2018, at 1:12 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Control: clone 883245 -1
> Control: retitle -1 apparmor: no permission to /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable> 
> Hello David,
> 
> your reported issue is obviously related to AppArmor. Even if the bug> report 
> is also related to AppArmor it would have been better if you
> had> created a new issue as your problem is different ftom the
> reported issue> in 883245.
> I've cloned the this old issue into anew one so the AppArmor people
> don't have to hassle to figure out which problems are all reported to> this 
> report.
> 
> Am 22.11.18 um 19:02 schrieb David Campbell:
>> 
>> 
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>> * ยป Thu>> Nov 22, 2018 12:00 pm
>> 
>> MK Linux 17.1 Thunderbird Version 52.9.1 64 Bit
>> 
>> One persistent problem I'm having is the inability of Thunderbird to>> open 
>> http, https URLs in emails with the Vivaldi. I also had the same>> problem 
>> with Chromium.
>> 
>> When I run Thunderbird in Safe Mode in a console and try to
>> open a url>> in Thunderbird email I get this message:
>> 
>> ***** (thunderbird:961): WARNING **: Could not launch default
>> application for URI: Failed to execute child process "/usr/bin/vivaldi-
>> stable" (Permission denied)*>> 
>> EDIT: When I try to open links from Evolution Email Client -
>> works fine.>> *EDIT2: Problem Appears to Be Solved:*
>> 
>> Narrowed this down to some kind of permissions problem with
>> thunderbird:\>> Found this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... 
>> bug=883245
>> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883245>
> 
> Well, it's mostly clear that thunderbird isn't allowed to run this
> binary as this is already visible on the CLI as you have posted above.> 
>> .....
>> I'm experiencing the same with the version that's currently in
>> testing.>> However, I found a workaround: either install 
>> thunderbird/1:52.5.0-1>> from unstable, or disable the apparmor profile 
>> yourself:
>> 
>> *sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird
>> /etc/apparmor.d/disable/>> sudo apparmor_parser -R 
>> /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird*
>> 
>> *Now Thunderbird URL links open correctly in Vivaldi*
> 
> Yes and no.
> It's a problem related to the AppArmor profile from Thunderbird and
> disabling the AppArmor profile make for sure going away the
> problem, but> ist's not solved. It's probably just one line you need to add 
> to the
> AppAprmor profile. That's a thing intrigeri or Vincas can answer for
> sure. (CCed)
> 
> @intrigeri
> You will need to add the correct BTS tagging for apparmore please.
> 
> --
> Regards
> Carsten Schoenert

dac

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