Firefox lock file?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 00:11 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Having parts of your home directory owned by root can cause serious
> problems.  I can't say whether that's the cause of your current problem,
> but modifying your home directory as root is usually regrettable.

You can fix the ownership problem by running:

sudo chown -R username:username .

in your home directory.  See the man page for chown for details. Be
careful running this command.  Be sure your current working directory is
your home directory.  Otherwise you can really foul up the ownership of
installed programs, etc. Check the output of 'pwd' before running the
above command. You can find out if files in your home directory are
owned by a user other than yourself by running in your home directory:

find . ! -user username -ls

This will give you a list of the files with the wrong ownership.

If you are uncomfortable doing the above on your entire home directory,
you can do it just on the Firefox stuff by doing:

cd
cd .mozilla/firefox
find . ! -user username -ls
sudo chown -R username:username .
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