The /home/adaq/bin/firefox script takes care of the bulk of the problems, but it only works when it is able to invoke firefox. This can fail in a few ways(*), but here's what needs to be done:
a) mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox.orig
mv /adaqfs/home/adaq/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
chattr +i /usr/bin/firefox
-- this is to keep rpm from blowing away the script behind your back
b) stop all running firefoxes on the cluster
c) regenerate the profiles in ~adaq/.mozilla/firefox
I will be happy to do (b) and (c), but there's no point until (a) is
completed.
(*) The most common problem is that the desktop manager 'firefox' button
points to /usr/bin/firefox. I've changed this a half-dozen times on every
adaq machine but it always gets changed back at some point (ie. it's usually
only good for one login session). After that, it's only a matter of time
before the whole thing breaks. There are also ingrained problems with
how the
shell rc scripts are used on the adaq cluster that make it
hard/impossible for
'alias' overrides to be reliable.
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