Harry: Great, this works for me too! What I did was uncomment the two lines after "maximum plugin/helper campatibility", and then commented out the lines below, as in the following snippet.
This also gives a workaround for another bug (that I filed) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/440478 , because it then allows the java plugin to be loaded! ============ /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox-3.5 snip ========== # for maximum plugin/helper compatibility /usr/bin/* Uxr, /usr/lib/*/** ixr, # # For stricter access, comment out the 'maximum plugin/helper compatibility' # lines above and uncomment these # # evince has its own profile, so change to it #/usr/bin/evince PUxr, # miscellaneous #/usr/bin/eog Uxr, #/usr/bin/gedit Uxr, #/usr/bin/gimp* Uxr, #/usr/bin/file-roller Uxr, #/usr/bin/ooffice Uxr, #/usr/bin/oocalc Uxr, ================================== On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Harry Bear <[email protected]> wrote: > same problem but just with office files .doc .xls .odt and so on. It > seems that firefox-3.5 apparmor profile just allow call to oowriter, > oocalc and so on by default while openoffice.org packages associate > theese document mime types with soffice call. > > I got this audit log when the problem occur : > > type=APPARMOR_DENIED msg=audit(1256233153.219:51): operation="exec" > pid=8050 parent=20285 profile="/usr/lib/firefox-3.5.*/firefox" > requested_mask="::x" denied_mask="::x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0 > name="/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice" > > Juste added this line to /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox-3.5 : > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice Uxr, > > restarted apparmor and the problem was gone > > Maybe a patch to openoffice.org-xxx package for mime association is a > better solution > > -- > "open with application" does not work > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454019 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: firefox-3.5 > > When a .pdf or .doc link is clicked, firefox will ask "what to do with the > file". the default will be the (correct) default application normally used > for this kind of file. When I click OK, firefox goes on to download the > file, but the nothing happens (no error message, no helper application > opens). I can still choose "save file" and then go and open the file outside > firefox. > > Package version: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 > Ubuntu version: Kubuntu Karmic, beta, just updated and dist-upgraded. > > The bug started happening about a week ago. > > Cheers > Jakob. > -- "open with application" does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454019 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
