Greetings, all —

   SL6.2; kernel 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.i686
   Gnome: 2.28.2
   Firefox: 17.0.10
   Evince: 2.28.2

Trying to save a webpage from firefox or a pdf file from evince results in
error messages (given below) saying I don’t have permission to create the
files.  This happens whether it is evince trying to create temporary files
in /tmp or firefox trying to create files in my personal file system.
There are no problems with the permissions on /tmp ("drwxrwxrwt") or my
own file system, and the messages always apply only to creation of files
within subdirectories that the application creates.  Firefox creates a
subdirectory, owned by my uid/gid, with "drw-r--r--" permissions.  Evince
creates a subdirectory owned by my uid/gid with "drw-------" permissions.
For what it’s worth, my umask is 0002.

So these applications are creating directories without execute permission,
and then complaining about the lack of permission.  The Adobe pdf reader
(acroread) saves files with no problem, and I have no difficulty creating
directories with mkdir or files with vi — no problems with permissions in
general.

Error messages:

From firefox (when saving to the /home/stevet/Download directory):

   /home/stevet/Download/search_files/rsAltRSTNEofta[etc].js
   could not be saved, because you cannot change the contents of that
   folder.  Change the folder properties and try again, or try saving in a
   different location.  [message generally repeated many times, once for
   each file in the <pagename>_files subdirectory of my Download
   directory.]

From evince (when saving to /home/stevet):

   Failed to create file "/tmp/evince-9460/saveacopy-3.U5SL8W": Permission 
   denied

The problem with firefox has gone on for the better part of a year; evince
started having the same problem only very recently.  My efforts to search
out a solution, whether from online information or through my own
experimentation, have yielded nothing.  Would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks!

Steve
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Stephen L. Talbott                               BiologyWorthyofLife.org
Senior Researcher, The Nature Institute:             natureinstitute.org
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