Strange Insufficient Disk Space Error in Firefox

zzyzcx · 04-20-2008, 11:02 AM

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:

Quote:

root[~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 14G 3.8G 9.1G 30% /
/dev/sda6 31G 867M 29G 3% /home
/dev/sda1 19G 9.8G 8.3G 55% /xp
/dev/sda2 9.4G 523M 8.8G 6% /opt

As you can see, there are gigs upon gigs of space available in all my partitions. Anyone know what would cause this error message?

toreric · 04-20-2008, 11:42 AM

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

zzyzcx · 04-20-2008, 12:42 PM

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.

Tinkster · 04-20-2008, 01:18 PM

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