[gutsy tribe-2] firefox doesn't create profile if not present

[Gavin McCullagh]

Installed gutsy tribe-2 from

 - alternative cd cli install
 - apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Immediately when I started firefox the profile dialog popped up with no profiles. i tried to create one and got a strange error message (will try to reproduce and get that.

firefox version2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu3

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

I get this error:

***MEMORY-WARNING***: firefox-bin[17906]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...

though that also happens when I have an existing working profile and firefox works as normal. See screenshot for what happens when there isn't a profile.

I've checked permissions etc. It manages to create .mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxDefault\ Userz so I'm not clear what the problem is.

[Califax (pascal.ziener)]

I got the same error and i figured out that Firefox created a FILE with the usual random name instead a FOLDER. I think Firefox has a problem with that.

As a temporary fix helps:

1. create a folder "default" in "./mozilla/firefox"
2. and put:

    [Profile0]
    Name=default
    IsRelative=1
    Path=default

   in .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini

[Califax (pascal.ziener)]

Supplement:

I forgot to say that i meant the profile folder, where Firefox creates a file for. This happend after a new installation of Kubuntu Tribe2 and a following apt-get dist-upgrade. Then i installed Firefox. So i had no profile before.

Sorry for my bad English!

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

***MEMORY-WARNING***: firefox-bin[17906]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...

is not an error its a warning, this warning has nothing to do with profile issue. Rejecting bug because as it is known all over the place, We(ubuntu-mozillateam) will be working on something for that warning, anyway all apps that use glibc will have this warning.
please open a bug on the profile issue if there is an issue outside of the warning you are getting and please use the Help>Report a bug entry from firefox help menu to report firefox bugs from now on as it will give us alot of info we need to proceed with bugs.

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

The reported bug *is* the profile issue. That's why the title of the bug reads "[gutsy tribe-2] firefox doesn't create profile if not present" and the first post talks only about that.

I added the comment with the warning just in case it was relevant.

Seeing as you've decided to invalidate this (due to extra info being given?), I guess I'll see if I can report it upstream and pray that it is really an upstream bug and not an ubuntu one.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

gavinmc,
please open a bug on the profile issue if there is an issue outside of the warning you are getting and please use the Help>Report a bug entry from firefox help menu to report firefox bugs from now on as it will give us alot of info we need to proceed with bugs. when you file a bug in the way i gave you it sends info like extentions and other important info we need to diagnose this issue. This sounds more like an upgrade issue upgrading from feisty to gutsy.

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

I have reported again using firefox's bug reporting. see bug 125648