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Subject:	Re: Note - Firefox 3.6 comming today for SL5
From:	Devin Bougie <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Devin Bougie <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:13:55 -0400
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Hi Chris,

On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2010, at 6:05pm, Devin Bougie wrote:
>> Just incase it helps, we saw this same problem with the Lazarus extension for one of our users.  In this case, the problem appears to have been that ~/.mozilla/firefox was a link to an NFS share.  When I removed the link and moved the firefox directory back into ~/.mozilla/, Firefox 3.6 with Lazarus works fine.  
>> 
>> Firefox 3.0 with Lazarus works fine when ~/.mozilla/firefox is a link to an NFS share, but Firefox 3.6 with Lazarus does not.
> 
> In my case my home directory is itself an NFS mount, nothing can be done about that. ~/.mozilla/firefox is though a regular directory, not a link. Still, $HOME/.mozilla/firefox is ultimately on an NFS share. Is that the problem I wonder...

In our case, home directories are also on NFS shares.  The problem described above happened when ~/.mozilla/firefox was a link to a folder in a different NFS share.  Sorry for the confusion.

Devin

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