Strange Insufficient Disk Space Error in Firefox
 

Hello everyone.

I was trying to install a plug-in in Firefox this morning and I got a strange error telling me that there was insufficient disk space for the install.

Running df -h produces the following:
As you can see, there are gigs upon gigs of space available in all my partitions. Anyone know what would cause this error message?

Probably access problems. Try
sudo chown -R user:user /home/user

I installed Firefox as root, and I am trying to install the plug-in while logged in as root. That ought to work without monkeying around with the permissions, right? Firefox is installed in the /root directory, where root is the owner and the group, and permissions are set accordingly.

That's indeed odd, not that you should be running firefox as
root in the first place - one of the first steps to a compromised
system.

You could try to strace the process and see where it gets
stuck (what the actual file-system is it's trying to access).


Cheers,
Tink