[Bug 217525] Re: On 64-bit Hardy Heron beta, Thunderbird does not retain profile -- and cannot create one in the default folder due to permissions problem.

[qubitual]

Thanks for your reply. When I do this command in root mode, here's the
output:

root at gormenghast:~#  ls -l ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/
total 8
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 2008-03-21 07:19 hce3jktp.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   94 2008-03-21 06:41 profiles.ini

And when I try it with a regular user terminal:

ls -l  ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/
ls: cannot open directory /home/steerpike/.mozilla-thunderbird/: Permission
denied

So, obviously you've identified the culprit. I realize now I can start
Thunderbird with "thunderbird" in a sudo terminal, and it remembers the
profile no problem.

This is the same problem I'm having with a program called Miro,
incidentally. So, I'll do some googling and figure out how to correctly
change permissions. But this must be happening to other people, too, no?

Thanks again
John


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Matthew Tighe <matthew.e.tighe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can you check the permissions on your .mozilla-thunderbird folder and
> the sub-folders in your home directory? You can do this with the
> following commad:
>
>  ls -l ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/
>
> Everything should be owned by you.
>
> ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> On 64-bit Hardy Heron beta, Thunderbird does not retain profile -- and
> cannot create one in the default folder due to permissions problem.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217525
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