@Jean-Philippe, I use the Firefox profile extensively with some additional local/ rules (LP: #1533232) but I never ran into a situation where Firefox needed to access /dev/shm. Could you double check if you still have those denial on a fully updated system? Thanks
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495248 Title: usr.bin.firefox blocks /dev/shm Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When apparmor is activated for Firefox, I get the following log messages: [28547.841769] audit: type=1400 audit(1442154214.608:109): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" name="/dev/shm/shmfd-mSnoHU" pid=7425 comm ="firefox" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=1111 ouid=1111 Both /run/shm/shmfd-* and /var/run/shm/shmfd-* are allowed, but not /dev/shm/shmfd-*. Changing : owner /{,var/}run/shm/shmfd-* rw, To: owner /{dev,{,var/}run}/shm/shmfd-* rw, seems to fix the issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1495248/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
