Start by updating to SL 6.4, which includes significant firefox updates. Is your home directory NFS mounted, or is it on your local system? And did you perchance set "/tmp" to be a separate partition, or one of those "virtual" filesystems?
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Steve Talbott <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, all — > > SL6.2; kernel 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.i686 > Gnome: 2.28.2 > Firefox: 17.0.10 > Evince: 2.28.2 > > Trying to save a webpage from firefox or a pdf file from evince results in > error messages (given below) saying I don’t have permission to create the > files. This happens whether it is evince trying to create temporary files > in /tmp or firefox trying to create files in my personal file system. > There are no problems with the permissions on /tmp ("drwxrwxrwt") or my > own file system, and the messages always apply only to creation of files > within subdirectories that the application creates. Firefox creates a > subdirectory, owned by my uid/gid, with "drw-r--r--" permissions. Evince > creates a subdirectory owned by my uid/gid with "drw-------" permissions. > For what it’s worth, my umask is 0002. > > So these applications are creating directories without execute permission, > and then complaining about the lack of permission. The Adobe pdf reader > (acroread) saves files with no problem, and I have no difficulty creating > directories with mkdir or files with vi — no problems with permissions in > general. > > Error messages: > > From firefox (when saving to the /home/stevet/Download directory): > > /home/stevet/Download/search_files/rsAltRSTNEofta[etc].js > could not be saved, because you cannot change the contents of that > folder. Change the folder properties and try again, or try saving in a > different location. [message generally repeated many times, once for > each file in the <pagename>_files subdirectory of my Download > directory.] > > From evince (when saving to /home/stevet): > > Failed to create file "/tmp/evince-9460/saveacopy-3.U5SL8W": Permission > denied > > The problem with firefox has gone on for the better part of a year; evince > started having the same problem only very recently. My efforts to search > out a solution, whether from online information or through my own > experimentation, have yielded nothing. Would appreciate any suggestions. > Thanks! > > Steve > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stephen L. Talbott BiologyWorthyofLife.org > Senior Researcher, The Nature Institute: natureinstitute.org > Mailing address: 20 May Hill Road, Ghent NY 12075 Tel: 518-672-5049
