Eric Dorland wrote, on 04/09/08 16:21:
* Arthur Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0.1-1
Severity: important
After installing kernel 2.6.27-rc5 and restarting I found iceweasel
creating a new *.default directory and giving me a fresh install:
~/.mozilla/firefox$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 4 amarsh04 amarsh04 4096 2008-09-04 12:10 .
drwx------ 8 amarsh04 amarsh04 4096 2008-09-03 22:28 ..
drwx------ 7 amarsh04 amarsh04 4096 2008-09-04 12:13 igqi3kzb.default
drwxr-xr-x 3 amarsh04 amarsh04 4096 2008-09-04 11:38 odob3ox8.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 amarsh04 amarsh04 94 2008-09-04 12:10 profiles.ini
I then deleted the newly created directory tree and created a symlink to
the old one:
~/.mozilla/firefox$ rm -r igqi3kzb.default
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla/firefox$ ln -s odob3ox8.default
igqi3kzb.default
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla/firefox$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 amarsh04 amarsh04 4096 2008-09-04 12:29 .
drwx------ 8 amarsh04 amarsh04 4096 2008-09-03 22:28 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 amarsh04 amarsh04 16 2008-09-04 12:29 igqi3kzb.default ->
odob3ox8.default
drwxr-xr-x 6 amarsh04 amarsh04 4096 2008-09-04 12:35 odob3ox8.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 amarsh04 amarsh04 94 2008-09-04 12:10 profiles.ini
I still had to reinstall add-ons after that.
Is there any reason that iceweasel would create a new *.default
directory?
What's in that profiles.ini file?
It was pointing to the newly created igqi3kzb.default directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla/firefox$ more profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=igqi3kzb.default
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla/firefox$
It appears that something either deleted or edited the original
profiles.ini.
Is there a fixed algorithm to create the *.default directory name?
Regards,
Arthur.
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