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Firefox 1.0 strangeness from the console

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MT
2004-11-14
2013-04-16
  • MT

    MT - 2004-11-14

    After installing, I got this message...

    Finder tool: request to change uid to -1 gid to 20 for /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
    /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin: can't map file: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/MRJPlugin.plugin ((os/kern) invalid argument)
    ### MRJPlugin:  getPluginBundle() here. ###
    ### MRJPlugin:  CFBundleGetBundleWithIdentifier() succeeded. ###
    ### MRJPlugin:  CFURLGetFSRef() succeeded. ###

    So I changed the owner to root and the group to admin for all the files. Now upon relaunching Firefox, the first line is gone, but the can't map file business remains. What does this mean?

     
    • Steven Michaud

      Steven Michaud - 2004-11-15

      I haven't seen the "finder tool" message before ... but you seem to
      have found a solution for it.  (By the way, it's the "staff" group
      that has a gid of 20, but I've no idea what user has a uid of -1.)

      The "can't map file" message is completely benign, and can be ignored.
      I see it myself all the time, sometimes referring to the MRJ Plugin
      and sometimes to the Flash plugin.  It's presumably caused by some
      kind of bug in the Mozilla-family browsers.  The string "can't map
      file" brings up a number of items in Bugzilla, including the
      following, which seems to be the "master" record, to which the others
      get duped:

      https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200945

       

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