[gNewSense-users] Re: Unable to open /usr files

[Bruno Miguel]

A Sunday 16 November 2008 02:02:26, Bruno Miguel escreveu:
> Hi.
>
> A few weeks ago I did what everyone should not do: I installed an
> unstrusted third-party deb package. This screw up my system and, since I
> didn't knew how to recover it, I decided to reinstall gNS.
>
> I have /home in a different partition, so I was able to maintain all of my
> user configs.
>
> After installing gNS, I installed all the updates, rebooted and then
> uncompressed an Icecat archive I had created (compiled it from source with
> pt- PT locale) to /opt. That done, I symlinked totem and openjdk plugins
> into icecat's plugins folder. But when I started Icecat, I couldn't use the
> plugins - it said it can't open the shared library because i hasn't
> premission to do it.
>
> I've tried this with a new user account, placed a fresh Icecat archive
> straight from Icecat's ftp, and I got the same error messages. My "regular"
> account is the default account created during installation, with the same
> username it had before I had to reinstall gNS.
>
> I'm completely lost here. Anyone can help me with this?
>
> Peace;
> Bruno Miguel

Forgot to mention that I also experienced this behaviour with the new 
SeaMonkey, downloaded from SeaMonkey's website (I'm writing a short review 
to a portuguese free software blog).

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