Profile won't load. Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 daily.

[Jackson Doak]

when attempting to open firefox an error comes up saying "Your firefox profile cannot be loaded. it may be missing or inaccessible". i am running the daily build of ubuntu 64-bit in a virtual machine and other errors have come up.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1033437

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Renat (deymos34)]

Faced the same bug at 64-bit 12.04. Clean install after official release.

[Renat (deymos34)]

In my case problem arose because /home/myUserName/.mozilla was owned by root user for some reason - unlike other hidden folders. So sudo chown -R myUserName:myUserName /home/myUserName/.mozilla did the trick, and Firefox works well now.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

That is quite common, caused by users running Firefox with sudo. In fact, we detect this automatically for people who follow the guidelines and use Apport when reporting a Firefox bug (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs)

[Antony F Heaton (r-antony)]

I had this on both firefox and thunderbird. The first time it happened a reboot cured, but after a subsequent reboot it became permanent. It turned out that something had removed the executable attribute from ~/.cache (no idea what or when). None of the other threads seem to have suggested this, so I thought I should log it. Once you know where to look it is easy to see and correct.

$ ls -l ~/.cache/
ls: cannot access /home/tony/.cache/rhythmbox: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /home/tony/.cache/telepathy: Permission denied
... (numerous similar errors) ...
ls: cannot access /home/tony/.cache/indicator-applet.log: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /home/tony/.cache/compizconfig-1: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? checkbox/
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? chromium/
... (numerous similar entries) ...
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? winetricks/
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? xine-lib/
$ ls -ld ~/.cache
drw------- 34 tony tony 4096 Mar 21 23:40 /home/tony/.cache/
$ chmod a+rwx ~/.cache
$ ls -ld ~/.cache
drwxrwxrwx 34 tony tony 4096 Mar 21 23:40 /home/tony/.cache/
$ ls -l ~/.cache/
total 164
drwxr-xr-x 3 tony tony 4096 Mar 7 00:06 checkbox/
drwx------ 3 tony tony 4096 Jun 29 2013 chromium/
... (numerous similar entries) ...
drwxrwxr-x 18 tony tony 4096 Feb 2 22:44 winetricks/
drwx------ 2 tony tony 4096 Mar 28 23:03 xine-lib/
$

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Firefox since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported using currently supported versions of Firefox and Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]