Ubuntu
firefox-3.5 package

  1. Bug #430250
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 430250

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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :

an strace of firefox-3.5 shows the following around where the lock error is displayed:
[pid 16470] open("/home/user/.pulse-cookie", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 30
[pid 16470] fcntl64(30, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xbfda94ec) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[pid 16470] readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/usr/lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox"..., 99) = 30
[pid 16470] write(2, "lock: Permission denied\n", 24lock: Permission denied
) = 24