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FS#12535 - mozilla-common requires re-login

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Campbell Barton (ideasman42) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 13:36 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:39 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Jan de Groot (JGC)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

When you install extra/mozilla-common 1.2-1 it installs /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh which sets the MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH variable.

However this only runs when logging in, so you need to log off, then in again to use mozilla plugins.
The user is not notified of this, so after installing a plugin for firefox, the user wont know to do this to make the plugin work.

Further on other linux distrobutions this is not the case since they dont use this method to have the MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH set.

Steps to reproduce:
* start with an arch install without mozilla-common installed
* install a plugin such as flash
* quit firefox (if its open) and start it
* the pluging wont be loaded.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  added a install note
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 13:57 GMT
There are a lot of packages which require a relogin. Arch is not a handholding distribution. So you should expect a "wont fix" here.
Comment by Campbell Barton (ideasman42) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 14:12 GMT
A simple message that says "Re-login to for this pacjage to work" would be enough.
I am told packages are capable of giving messages like this.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 15:51 GMT
this i a good catch. not everybody reads the commit lists. whenever a 2nd hidden step is expected to make the system run the way we need it you are probably right that there should be a small note what is required from the user. a simple post-install msg "please source /foo/bar or relogin" should be enough.

but this is a general question so i assign it to some more Devs. opinions?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 17:44 GMT
I agree with Andy here. We don't need to hand-hold, but saying "Yo, do this thing right now" seems fine to me.

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