Firefox-7.0.1 fails

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Loko123 · Post by **Loko123** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:49 am

Hey guys,

I was going to install Firefox-7.0.1 but it fails with these error messages:

remote', '-profile', '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/_profile/pgo/pgoprofile/', 'http://localhost:8888/index.html']
INFO | automation.py | Application pid: 9915
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1".

(firefox-bin:9915): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory: Permission denied
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/root/.gnome2/': Permission denied
TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | automation.py | Exited with code 1 during test run
INFO | automation.py | Application ran for: 0:00:06.060153
INFO | automation.py | Reading PID log: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1/temp/tmpV7Sry1pidlog
make: *** [profiledbuild] Error 1

I don't know why firefox-bin is listed here. Any help would be appreciated!

Loko123

barul · Post by **barul** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:30 am

You've got some error messages in what you pasted.

JohnBlbec · Post by **JohnBlbec** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:04 am

the same problem, i had to create following directories manually:

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# mkdir -p .gnome .gnome2_private .gnome2/accels

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:02 am

is it me or are toy trying to run firefox as root?

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:27 am

It may be doing something funky when run with FEATURES=test, try disabling that (unless you actually want it).

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:29 am

try running chown -R <your user>:<your user> ~ and start ff again

Aquous · Post by **Aquous** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:54 am

DaggyStyle wrote:is it me or are toy trying to run firefox as root?

that's normal, part of the PGO process which is run when USE=pgo is set

simonbcn · Post by **simonbcn** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:27 pm

There is a problem with the compile of this package when I activate "PGO".
I have the same problem:

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args: ['/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dist/firefox/firefox-bin', '-no-remote', '-profile', '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/_profile/pgo/pgoprofile/', 'http://localhost:8888/index.html']
INFO | automation.py | Application pid: 5750
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/root/.gnome2_private/': Permission denied
TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | automation.py | Exited with code 1 during test run
INFO | automation.py | Application ran for: 0:00:00.982000
INFO | automation.py | Reading PID log: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/temp/tmpTc0k8ypidlog
make: *** [profiledbuild] Error 1
emake failed

Is this a Gentoo bug? I think so.

ADD:
Ok, I've solved it. The problem is solved if temporaly I allow log in Gnome to root user.

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:16 am

Aquous wrote:
DaggyStyle wrote:is it me or are toy trying to run firefox as root?
that's normal, part of the PGO process which is run when USE=pgo is set

is it gnome issue? I don't thing I have this issue with kde

simonbcn wrote:There is a problem with the compile of this package when I activate "PGO".
I have the same problem:

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args: ['/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dist/firefox/firefox-bin', '-no-remote', '-profile', '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/_profile/pgo/pgoprofile/', 'http://localhost:8888/index.html']
INFO | automation.py | Application pid: 5750
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/root/.gnome2_private/': Permission denied
TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | automation.py | Exited with code 1 during test run
INFO | automation.py | Application ran for: 0:00:00.982000
INFO | automation.py | Reading PID log: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/temp/tmpTc0k8ypidlog
make: *** [profiledbuild] Error 1
emake failed

Is this a Gentoo bug? I think so.

ADD:
Ok, I've solved it. The problem is solved if temporaly I allow log in Gnome to root user.

imho, it isn't a good idea...
root should not be used to everyday programs in any way.

Loko123 · Post by **Loko123** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:22 pm

Bug is already reported - Let's hope, that it will be fixed soon.

simonbcn · Post by **simonbcn** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:44 pm

DaggyStyle wrote:imho, it isn't a good idea...
root should not be used to everyday programs in any way.

It's true, but this change is only to compile Firefox with PGO. After the compile, GDM go back to correct behavior.