bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

[Nathan Dehnel]

Icecat fails to start with "your icecat profile cannot be loaded. It
may be missing or inaccessible."

bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

[Danny Milosavljevic]

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Hi,

I think that this has to be fixed upstream in the Icecat (or even Firefox)
project one way or another.

Could you back up ~/.mozilla/icecat ?

If you then rename ~/.mozilla/icecat to something else, your old profile
will be gone and a new one will be created and it will start up.

There's also a command line option for icecat to specify another directory
(--profile ...), but not sure whether it would create a new one, too.

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bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Danny Milosavljevic 写道：
> There's also a command line option for icecat to specify another 
> directory
> (--profile ...), but not sure whether it would create a new one, 
> too.

You can also start icecat with the ‘--ProfileManager’ option for 
the slightly more user-friendly GUI edition.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

[Nathan Dehnel]

deleting the directory and --ProfileManager flag don't help

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 6:14 AM Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
>
> Danny Milosavljevic 写道：
> > There's also a command line option for icecat to specify another
> > directory
> > (--profile ...), but not sure whether it would create a new one,
> > too.
>
> You can also start icecat with the ‘--ProfileManager’ option for
> the slightly more user-friendly GUI edition.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R

bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Nathan,

Nathan Dehnel 写道：
> deleting the directory and --ProfileManager flag don't help

Did you delete (back up) your entire ~/.mozilla, not just the 
‘icecat’ subdirectory?

Kind regards,

T G-R

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bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Nathan Dehnel 写道：
> That worked, thank you.

Great!  Closing this bug, since it's both ‘fixed’ and not 
Guix-specific.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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bug#39614: icecat "profile cannot be loaded"

[Danny Milosavljevic]

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For the record, that probably means that a Firefox extension misbehaved.

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