[Bug 292474] Re: Firefox 3.0 Menu Buttons disabled

[Koen De Wit]

I was able to reproduce this while strace-ing firefox.  The file was
lost too. (In fact it was empty. I'm not a bash expert, but is it
possible that the strace-command provided does not write the file
actually?)

However, I noticed a line in the strace-output that mentions that access
was denied to the file "places.sqlite-journal"  IT belonged to the root
user. I executed this command:

sudo chmod 777 ~/.mozilla/firefox/5tutnx4z.default/places.sqlite-journal

and I started firefox again.  This solved the problem, I was able to use
the back button again.  After starting firefox, the file "places.sqlite-
journal" was owned by myself again, not by root, and its permissions
were reset to "rw-r--r--".

I have no idea why the file's owner was set to root.

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Firefox 3.0 Menu Buttons disabled
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