[GRLUG] Could not initialize application's security component (Firefox)

[Eric Beversluis]

What is "the application's profile directory"? I looked at profile.ini
in .mozilla/firefox, but that doesn't seem to have anything relevant.
And I don't see a "profile directory" in .mozilla anywhere.

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 11:09 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I can check those things, but why would any of them have changed since
> the last time I opened Firefox?
> 
> On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 10:16 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Eric Beversluis
> > <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to re-open Firefox and am getting this strange message. Any
> > > idea what it means or what I should do about it? Firefox 15.01 on Fedora
> > > 17.
> > >
> > > "Could not initialize the application's security component. The most
> > > likely cause is problems with files in your application's profile
> > > directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write
> > > restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is
> > > recommended that you exit the application and fix the problem. If you
> > > continue to use this session, you might see incorrect application
> > > behaviour when accessing security features."
> > 
> > Follow the instructions. First, make sure your disk isn't full.
> > 
> > df -h
> 
> Plenty of room:
> rootfs                   50G  4.7G   45G  10% /
> devtmpfs                1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev
> tmpfs                   1.8G  244K  1.8G   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                   1.8G  1.4M  1.8G   1% /run
> /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root   50G  4.7G   45G  10% /
> tmpfs                   1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> tmpfs                   1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /media
> /dev/sda2               485M   63M  397M  14% /boot
> /dev/sda1               200M  284K  200M   1% /boot/efi
> /dev/mapper/vg-lv_home  239G   25G  202G  11% /home
> 
> > 
> > Make sure that ~/.mozilla and subdirectories are accessible to you and only you.
> > 
> > 1) Close firefox
> > 2) find ~/.mozilla -type d -exec chmod 0700 '{}' \; # directories
> > should be executable.
> > 3) find ~/.mozilla -type f -exec chmod 0600 '{}' \; # files should not
> > be executable.
> 
> > 4) Start firefox
> > 
> > If the problem still persists, maybe your filesystem is read-only.
> > 
> > mount
> 
> Looks like it's all rw. And I've been writing all kinds of other stuff
> to the fs.
> > 
> > If the problem _still_ persists, are you sure you own the files in question?
> > 
> > ls -l ~/.mozilla
> > 
> Yup.
> 
> I wonder if it has to do with turning off SELinux? I had to do that as
> it was messing with my WordPress functionality and I don't have time to
> learn SELinux now. I don't have time to be messing with this either, but
> I shouldn't have to be. I've shut off SELinux in the past without any
> trouble.
> 
> These are the instructions I found online:
> cp /et/selinux/config  /etc/selinux/config.bak
> sed -i s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=disables/g  /etc/etc/selinux/config
> 
> Thanks.
> EB
> 
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