On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:09:34PM -0000, Jere Kupari wrote:
> I also got this updating firefox
> Warning: something created compreg.dat!
> Your system was affected by this bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/30791
> 
> Firefox, Epiphany and everything seemes to work normally, before and
> after the update.
> 
> Alexander asked:
> >What version did you upgrade from?
> 
> firefox (2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2) to 2.0.0.4+1-0ubuntu1
> (amd64)
> 
> >Please do a
> >dpkg -l firefox | grep compreg.dat
> >and tell me the output.
> 
> Did you mean dpkg -L | grep compreg.dat ?
> -l seems to list only the package name.
> 
> Neither gives anything.
> 

compreg.dat is known to be created if you run epiphany as "root" or
with sudo. Though this is a bug, its not likely to be fixed soon (I
asked epiphany developers about that). 

So as a workaround, please don't start epiphany as root.

Thanks,

 - Alexander

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firefox 1.4.99 upgrade still have compreg.dat, creates issue
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/30791
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