Firefox is broken

[dequire]

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[dequire]

Literally millions of people use the firefox package in Kubuntu, so the issue is somehow on your end. Not sure why you're having an issue, but here's what I would do:

Open a terminal and type

sudo apt purge firefox

Then to be sure, type

sudo rm -r ~/.mozilla

Then type

sudo apt install firefox

That really should be all you need to do. If it still doesn't work, it must be your sources that are somehow bringing in the wrong Firefox packages.Image already added

[dequire]

OK every time I edit a post now I'm getting this "Image already added" message tacked on to my posts (see above), without adding any images. There's no way to delete it by editing a post...it just puts it back. Anyone else ever have this happen to them?
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[steve7233]

OK every time I edit a post now I'm getting this "Image already added" message tacked on to my posts (see above), without adding any images. There's no way to delete it by editing a post...it just puts it back. Anyone else ever have this happen to them?
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I was wondering about the image already added thing.

As I said before there might be something wrong with my source list or something but what? I'll see If I can find my paste bin account and post dmseg output maybe someone will spot something.
Here it is: https://pastebin.com/XnLgbrpK

My laptop is about 10 years old. I know I should buy a new one. I can buy it when you give me the money!

[vinnywright]

never never never open dolphin with "sudo" if you must have a root dolphin use "kdesudo"

run this and post the output ,,,,,

find ~/ -user root

VINNY

[steve7233]

never never never open dolphin with "sudo" if you must have a root dolphin use "kdesudo"

OK.

find ~/ -user root
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VINNY

https://pastebin.com/LPYXnUA7

[steve7233]

Even using kdesudo dolphin, my owner and group changes are not sticking. The owner and group keep going back to root. Why root anyway since I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox?

[Snowhog]

Who owns .Xauthority in your users home directory?

[steve7233]

Who owns .Xauthority in your users home directory?

There isn't one in usr. usr is on its own partition.

[vinnywright]

There isn't one in usr. usr is on its own partition.

he means you,,,,,,,,,your /home/steve7233

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

OK.



https://pastebin.com/LPYXnUA7

Looking at what you've pasted in pastebin it is obvious that your home directory, /home/steve7233/, has 581 files with root ownership. There should be NONE, unless you've installed a link to a root file. So, you must be running Kubuntu as root, or you are using sudo to run KDE apps from your home directory. This would explain ALL of your problems you've posted with over the last few weeks. While you could use chown to change the group and owner back to steve:steve there is probably other damage done to your installation's home account and probably to config files normally owned by root. So, I suggest that you reinstall Kubuntu and this time do not run any KDE program from your home account using sudo, and before you change any config files consult with people on this forum.

[steve7233]

Looking at what you've pasted in pastebin it is obvious that your home directory, /home/steve7233/, has 581 files with root ownership. There should be NONE, unless you've installed a link to a root file. So, you must be running Kubuntu as root, or you are using sudo to run KDE apps from your home directory. This would explain ALL of your problems you've posted with over the last few weeks. While you could use chown to change the group and owner back to steve:steve there is probably other damage done to your installation's home account and probably to config files normally owned by root. So, I suggest that you reinstall Kubuntu and this time do not run any KDE program from your home account using sudo, and before you change any config files consult with people on this forum.

I don't like making very stupid mistakes like that. I was wondering why vinney said never so many times. To bad it's to late to doge that bullet. I will reinstall tomorrow. It's OK to delete the config files using the live dvd and kdesudo right. I can keep all my personal files on home and just not reformat the home partition. Correct?

[GreyGeek]

I don't like making very stupid mistakes like that. I was wondering why vinney said never so many times. To bad it's to late to doge that bullet. I will reinstall tomorrow. It's OK to delete the config files using the live dvd and kdesudo right. I can keep all my personal files on home and just not reformat the home partition. Correct?

Most have done something like that at one time or another. That's how we become experts.

Dodge another bullet. Save your personal files to a USB stick, CD or another HD, then nuke the drive and do a complete install, including home. Then restore your personal files. Don't delete config files and ask before you modify any.

May I also suggest that you install using root (/) as your only partition and not create additional partitions. When you format / use btrfs as your fs. Oshunluver and others have posted extensive msgs about using Btrfs. Using it will allow you to recover from disasters quickly without tedious file copying from a USB, CD or HD.

[steve7233]

* Goes to read up on btrfs.

[steve7233]

...O Yea!
Will BTRFS work properly on my almost 10 year old lap top and will my Intle GMA45 Video using I915 work. Also my BRCOM 4233 Wireless and my real tech 10/100/1000 ethernet.
I suspect the vaapi driver may have been depreciated from Ubuntu but I found a repo on launch pad that has it. https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/ubuntu/vaapi . The is no 17.10 package. The highest is 17.04 but that is EOL at the end of this month, so I don't see the point. It looks like the best is to install 16.04 LTS and add that repo.