10:48 p.m.
I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No problems
what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
as described below).
If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
to save/capture pages.
The default profile works as expected.
I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
look OK.
I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
Thanks.
9 a.m.
New subject: [SOLVED] firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 04:53 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
Now I'm looking for a way to change my user name on Fedora
without
totaly screwing the system and the need to reinstall.
In principle, changing the name is trivial as long as you don't change
the UID and GID. The only places the actual name is stored is
in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, so the right UID/GID combo can be set up
when you log in. I say "in principle" since you might have used the name
in some script or other (e.g. rsync has an option to use the actual name
when copying files remotely).
It might be simpler to persuade Unison to map one name onto the other,
if such a thing is possible.
poc
11:53 p.m.
New subject: [SOLVED] firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:02:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 02:10 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> > I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help,
> folks.
>
> I've solved it. The problem had nothing to do either with Fedora or
> SELenux but silly me. :-)
If you post a message entitled SOLVED you might give a little more
detail. Saying "silly me" could mean anything at all.
Agree. You see, Gmane vanished somewhere in depth of Internet my first
SOLVED message with all details. I get upset about it and posted the
second one short... :-) Sorry.
The problem was in different user names used under Ubuntu's and Fedora.
Firefox profiles were fully synchronized between systems. Now, Ubuntu's
Firefox Download Manager had its download directory set to something like
home/ubuntu_username/Download. But Fedora's Firefox Download Manager
rightfully could not find such a directory, since it was supposed to be
something like home/fedora_username/Download.
To figure it out took a minute. I just started FF from terminal executing
[firefox -jsconsole] and then selected Save Page As... The error message
was plain clear.
So, I wasted time just following a wrong assumption and looking totally
in a wrong direction. :-( This is why "silly me".
Now I'm looking for a way to change my user name on Fedora without totaly
screwing the system and the need to reinstall.
10:32 p.m.
New subject: [SOLVED] firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 02:10 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you
help,
folks.
I've solved it. The problem had nothing to do either with Fedora or
SELenux but silly me. :-)
If you post a message entitled SOLVED you might give a little more
detail. Saying "silly me" could mean anything at all.
poc
9:10 p.m.
New subject: [SOLVED] firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on
each
of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No
problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
as described below).
If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
to save/capture pages.
The default profile works as expected.
I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
look OK.
I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
I've solved it. The problem had nothing to do either with Fedora or
SELenux but silly me. :-)
7:35 a.m.
On 03/23/2010 10:01 PM, Vitorio Okio wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
> of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
>
> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
>
> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No
> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
>
> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
> can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
> as described below).
>
> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
> requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
> Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
> to save/capture pages.
>
> The default profile works as expected.
>
> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
> not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
> look OK.
>
> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
>
> Thanks.
>
Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A fellow
asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in my
original post here. So, here some clarification.
I did not synchronize any of application files between different
distro's. By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each system and
synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all of
my 3 systems. The name could be any other, the goal was to keep the user
profile names equal on each system in order to simplify Unison
configuration files.
The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully
functional except the little problem described. I actually would rather
call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download add-on's anyway)
if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora, and, I still suspect,
SELinux.
He disabled SELinux but you still blame it?
Vitorio, what does getenforce say?
10:04 p.m.
Ed Greshko wrote:
Vitorio Okio wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
>
>
>
>> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
>> of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
>>
>> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
>> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
>>
>> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No
>> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
>>
>> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared"
profile I
>> can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
>> as described below).
>>
>> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
>> requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
>> Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
>> to save/capture pages.
>>
>> The default profile works as expected.
>>
>> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
>> not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to
me
>> look OK.
>>
>> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
> Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A fellow
> asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in my
> original post here. So, here some clarification.
>
> I did not synchronize any of application files between different
> distro's. By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each system
and
> synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
>
> I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all of
> my 3 systems. The name could be any other, the goal was to keep the user
> profile names equal on each system in order to simplify Unison
> configuration files.
>
> The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully
> functional except the little problem described. I actually would rather
> call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download add-on's anyway)
> if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora, and, I still suspect,
> SELinux.
>
>
>
For troubleshooting....
You may confirm you subscription by running seaudit. When access is
^suspicion
denied the occurrence is recorded in the audit log.
Your other choice is to place selinux in permissive mode. In that case,
warnings will be recorded but the action will not be denied.
--
Big book, big bore. -- Callimachus
9:52 p.m.
Vitorio Okio wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
> of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
>
> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
>
> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No
> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
>
> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
> can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
> as described below).
>
> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
> requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
> Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
> to save/capture pages.
>
> The default profile works as expected.
>
> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
> not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
> look OK.
>
> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
>
> Thanks.
>
Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A fellow
asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in my
original post here. So, here some clarification.
I did not synchronize any of application files between different
distro's. By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each system and
synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all of
my 3 systems. The name could be any other, the goal was to keep the user
profile names equal on each system in order to simplify Unison
configuration files.
The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully
functional except the little problem described. I actually would rather
call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download add-on's anyway)
if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora, and, I still suspect,
SELinux.
For troubleshooting....
You may confirm you subscription by running seaudit. When access is
denied the occurrence is recorded in the audit log.
Your other choice is to place selinux in permissive mode. In that case,
warnings will be recorded but the action will not be denied.
--
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
9:01 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on
each
of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No
problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
as described below).
If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
to save/capture pages.
The default profile works as expected.
I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
look OK.
I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
Thanks.
Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A fellow
asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in my
original post here. So, here some clarification.
I did not synchronize any of application files between different
distro's. By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each system and
synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all of
my 3 systems. The name could be any other, the goal was to keep the user
profile names equal on each system in order to simplify Unison
configuration files.
The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully
functional except the little problem described. I actually would rather
call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download add-on's anyway)
if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora, and, I still suspect,
SELinux.
11:55 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:04:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Vitorio Okio wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on
>>> each of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and
>>> Fedora.
>>>
>>> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them
using
>>> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
>>>
>>> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems. No
>>> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
>>>
>>> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared"
profile
>>> I can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of
>>> add-on' as described below).
>>>
>>> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected
>>> the requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However
>>> using Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on
>>> allows me to save/capture pages.
>>>
>>> The default profile works as expected.
>>>
>>> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake)
>>> did not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile
directory
>>> to me look OK.
>>>
>>> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help,
>>> folks.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>> Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A
>> fellow asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in
>> my original post here. So, here some clarification.
>>
>> I did not synchronize any of application files between different
>> distro's. By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each
system and
>> synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
>>
>> I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all
>> of my 3 systems. The name could be any other, the goal was to keep
>> the user profile names equal on each system in order to simplify
>> Unison configuration files.
>>
>> The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully
>> functional except the little problem described. I actually would
>> rather call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download
>> add-on's anyway) if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora,
>> and, I still suspect, SELinux.
>>
>>
>>
> For troubleshooting....
>
> You may confirm you subscription by running seaudit. When access is
>
^suspicion
> denied the occurrence is recorded in the audit log.
>
> Your other choice is to place selinux in permissive mode. In that
> case, warnings will be recorded but the action will not be denied.
Thanks, I'll try this.
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