On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Lessinger, Robert A. wrote: > Hello, > > I’m hoping that someone will be able to assist me in figuring out > why Firefox consistently fails to operate properly for our Macintosh > users here at St. Cloud State University. I’ve created a bug report > with bugzilla, but am now being referred to your organization. The > bug report # is 482300 (as indicated in the subject line of this > message as well). > > Basically, we have network homes for our lab users. We employ SMB > homes in an Active Directory environment. To correctly authenticate > our clients systems and attach to users’ file space, we also employ > Thursby’s ADmit Mac on each lab machine. We’ve tried several > approaches to resolving this issue, but it comes down to a failure > of Firefox to close out the “places.sqlite” and the other “places.*” > files that are stored in the user’s Firefox profile folder. > > This problem has been plaguing us for some time now and I am now > concerned that I will be asked to make a recommendation regarding > continued support of this app on our campus. It continues to work > perfectly normally for Windows lab users as well as users who make > use of non-lab machines (including myself). >
I have been following the bug report. You recognize, I hope, that this is really a bug in either your SMB server or in Thursby's ADmit Mac software - one of these or perhaps the combination appears to be failing to follow posix filesystem semantics. The best we can do is figure out a way to work around the problem. Since we do not have an SMB network nor Thursby's ADmit Mac software, we are unable to reproduce the problem in order to figure out what is really going on. We are completely dependent upon your analysis. I do not understand what you mean when you say: "a failure of Firefox to close out the 'places.sqlite' and other 'places.*' files". What does "close out a file" mean to you? Please tell us precisely what is happening to those files and what you were expecting to happen. Please also let us know the complete list of "places.*" files that you are talking about and where they are located. D. Richard Hipp [email protected] _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
