Bug 478884

Summary:	firefox error 203 unless run as root
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dzmitry <dkanunnikau>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	dkanunnikau, gecko-bugs-nobody, stransky, walters
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Description Dzmitry 2009-01-05 20:39:28 UTC

Description of problem:
Firefox refuses to install new or update existing plugins unless run as root. After that it is necessary to run chmod in order to let the normal user use firefox normally

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 10: kernel 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686
Gnome 2: 2.24.2
Firefox 3: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5

How reproducible:
whenever firefox suggests to update plugins, or I run the update manually, the packages are being downloaded, but fail to install with an error 203. Running firefox as root solves this problem

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search for updated plugins
2. Wait for updates to download
3. Stare at message boxes with "Error 203"
  
Actual results:
Plugins fail to install/upgrade


Expected results:
Plugins succeed to install/upgrade


Additional info:

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2009-01-14 12:46:09 UTC

Which plugins do you have installed and fails to update?

Comment 2 Dzmitry 2009-01-14 19:47:53 UTC

as far as i remember, any plugin would produce that result. the thing is, I've manually updated (via root, and changed permissions back to normal user) once, and yesterday I tried updating again - now everything works just fine. closed :)
sorry for inconvenience :)