Comment 10 for bug 365827

is there a sudo firefox bug # ?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Micah
Gersten<email address hidden> wrote:
> Please do not ever do:
> sudo firefox
>
> That causes so many problems.
>
> path wrote:
>> Just installed 9.04 and firefox is behaving as described in this bug.
>>
>> I can 'sudo firefox', that works.
>>
>>
>
> --
> Firefox 3.0.9 Fails to Start
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365827
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> $ lsb_release -rd
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
> Release:        8.10
>
> firefox:
>  Installed: (none)
>  Candidate: 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
>  Version table:
>     3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 0
>        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu intrepid-updates/main Packages
>        500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
>     3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
>        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu intrepid/main Packages
>
> $ sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> firefox-3.0 is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> Expected Results
> Firefox should have started upon clicking the Firefox icon.
>
> Actual Results
> Mouse cursor changed to "busy loading" icon. Mouse cursor eventually changed back to normal. Firefox did not start.
>
> This was an upgrade from the previous version of Firefox (3.0.7?). It included add-ons such as:
>
> - Flashblock
> - Sun's Java plug-in
> - Flash plug-in
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
> ProcEnviron:
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
>  PATH=/usr/kde3/bin:/usr/kde3/games:/usr/kde3/bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/bin:/opt/jdk/bin:/opt/ant/bin
>  LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64
>