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donescopeta

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Registered: 2017-01-27

Posts: 9

Your firefox profile cannot be loaded...

Hi,

I have an issue with Firefox, it's failing to start, showing "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible ". So I restored my profile from backup and replaced it, without any success. Also, I've performed "chown -R" for the entire user directory recursively changing all permissions to my user. Then I checked

[ms@MateuszArchDesktop ~]$ strace -e trace=%file firefox 2>&1 | grep "/home/ms/.cache"
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//3830d5c3ddfd5cd38a049b759396e72e-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//210c0516121708a580e22e6b1f9a103a-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//6ba42ae0000f58711b5caaf10d690066-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//a1c95d6dfc9a7b34f44445cf81166004-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//614d1caaa4d7914789410f6367de37ca-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//491f45a0a771fef1c10b9b647a97fb82-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//b67b32625a2bb51b023d3814a918f351-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//923e285e415b1073c8df160bee08820f-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//5ca8086aeacc9c68e81a71e7ef846b3b-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/fontconfig//a41116dafaf8b233ac2c61cb73f2ea5f-le64.cache-7", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
mkdir("/home/ms/.cache", 0755)          = -1 EEXIST (Plik istnieje)
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/ms/.cache/event-sound-cache.tdb.1eba552830ed47fda7d7ceda193e8f12.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC, 0644) = 40
[ms@MateuszArchDesktop ~]$ 

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It appears the Firefox is not checking or loading the profile.

I would be grateful for your advice.
Regards.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,534

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Re: Your firefox profile cannot be loaded...

Also, I've performed "chown -R" for the entire user directory

What exact command did you use, and why did you think it was necessary?  What was the ownership / permission before?

... $ strace -e trace=%file firefox 2>&1 | grep "/home/ms/.cache"

Why are you grepping just for .cache?  The profile is not under ~/.cache, so of course it would not be shown in that output.  If you think the strace output might be useful post (or link to) the complete output.

Last edited by Trilby (2020-11-25 15:14:37)

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flyingscorpio

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Registered: 2020-06-04

Posts: 34

Re: Your firefox profile cannot be loaded...

What's in  ~/.mozilla?
Did you change the name of one of the profile folders in ~.mozilla?
They are automatically generated and should not be made by the user.
How did you restore your backed up profile?

GSMiller

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Registered: 2020-11-23

Posts: 75

Re: Your firefox profile cannot be loaded...

donescopeta, please explain the commands in your post. They do not seem complete, or it is not clear why you used them.

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