firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything
Vitorio Okio
ovitorio at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 24 04:55:38 UTC 2010
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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