Re: firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything

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Ed Greshko wrote:
> Vitorio Okio wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
>>> of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
>>>
>>> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
>>> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
>>>
>>> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems.  No
>>> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
>>>
>>> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
>>> can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
>>> as described below).
>>>
>>> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
>>> requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
>>> Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
>>> to save/capture pages.
>>>
>>> The default profile works as expected.
>>>
>>> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
>>> not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
>>> look OK.
>>>
>>> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A fellow 
>> asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in my 
>> original post here. So, here some clarification.
>>
>> I did not synchronize any of application files between different 
>> distro's.  By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each system and 
>> synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
>>
>> I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all of 
>> my 3 systems.  The name could be any other, the goal was to keep the user 
>> profile names equal on each system in order to simplify Unison 
>> configuration files.
>>
>> The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully 
>> functional except the little problem described.  I actually would rather 
>> call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download add-on's anyway) 
>> if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora, and, I still suspect, 
>> SELinux.
>>
>>   
>>     
> For troubleshooting....
>
> You may confirm you subscription by running seaudit.   When access is
>   
                                       ^suspicion  
> denied the occurrence is recorded in the audit log.
>
> Your other choice is to place selinux in permissive mode.  In that case,
> warnings will be recorded but the action will not be denied.
>
>
>
>   


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