Interesting. I know other distros had tried this, and I seem to recall
reading about this during my last LFS build, but I didn't realize it was
in an actual release.
Good tips, thanks.
On 2015-07-16 13:01, Ed wrote:
> yes - I know - not "all" of the files - /bin /sbin etc the stuff I've
> always thought of as "the tree" - Fedora now has it all under /usr
> because /usr is very unlikely to be on a remote shared mount accessed
> ro by multiple systems, and potentially unavailable during boot.
> don't ask - just be happy.
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:
>> Nathan - Fedora has made changes to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy by
>> locating all files under /usr and replacing the rest, like /bin, with
>> simlinks, in this case to /usr/bin. This may create problems with
>> permissions that Firefox and Chrome are not dealing with. As to /tmp
>> - you should expect it to go away with each boot - many people encrypt
>> /tmp without keeping the key so that there is no information leakage
>> from one boot to the next.
>>
>> I would start looking at the permissions for the files Firefox and
>> Chrome can't seam to find in the new F22 locations - happy hunting
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been running Fedora 22 since it came out and have been very
>>> happy
>>> except a couple issues.
>>>
>>> * Firefox wants me to login to sync everytime I close the browser and
>>> open
>>> it again. It says there is a problem syncing. However, once I give it
>>> my
>>> password again it syncs fine and continues to work until I close the
>>> browser
>>> (all instances). Then when I open it again it all starts over.
>>>
>>> * Similarly Chrome has an issue remember passwords. It seems while it
>>> is
>>> open it remembers my passwords and all works well, but initially when
>>> I open
>>> it I have to log in to several places as if it does not remember my
>>> passwords.
>>>
>>> I am not using LastPass. I like the default password managers for
>>> both
>>> browsers. I use them for separate things and I do not want unified
>>> passwords
>>> between the two.
>>>
>>> Does F22 have a temp problem? I really get the impression that much
>>> of my
>>> browser data is being stored in tmp space and is lost when I reboot,
>>> which
>>> is daily because Grid Autosport doesn't work in Linux... ;-)
>>>
>>> I cannot find any references to this in Google as all searches with
>>> Firefox
>>> and sync return lots of people having problems, but not my problem.
>>> These
>>> issues are common across several machines I have and each has been
>>> wiped/installed multiple times.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
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