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I´ve got a problem with firejail. In principle this sandbox works quite well. I can start a browser (firefox/midori) and other applications as well (like rhythmbox). What I want to do now is use the overlay-functionality: firejail --overlay firefox. Yet that doesn´t work.

Firefox itself produces the following message: "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible". Yet that can´t be. Without firejail there´s no problem and even "firejail firefox" works well. The following message is taken from the terminal:

rosika@rosika-Lenovo-H520e ~> firejail --overlay firefox Reading profile /etc/firejail/firefox.profile Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-mgmt.inc Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-secret.inc Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-common.inc Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-devel.inc Reading profile /etc/firejail/whitelist-common.inc Warning: --overlay and --noroot are mutually exclusive, noroot disabled Parent pid 2362, child pid 2363 OverlayFS configured in /home/rosika/.firejail/2362 directory Warning: cannot find home directory *** *** Warning: cannot whitelist Downloads directory *** Any file saved will be lost when the sandbox is closed. *** Please create a proper Downloads directory for your application. *** Blacklist violations are logged to syslog Warning: failed to unmount /sys parent is shutting down, bye.

As far as I know --overlay has been working as of kernel version 3.18. As I have 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64 there shouldn´t be any problems. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot in advance. Rosika

P.S.: System: Linux/Lubuntu 16.04 LTS (64 bit)

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  • I don't know if you've solved your problem, but are you on WiFi? In that case, look at github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/151#issuecomment-159978829 Commented May 31, 2017 at 11:07
  • Hi DK Bose. Tnx for your reply. No, I haven´t solved my problem. I looked up the page you provided the link for. I read it very carefully and tried all of the steps described there. Yet nothing worked. I am on WiFi but I think the problem lies elsewhere. The "Warning: cannot find home directory" has to be the clue, I guess. Greetings. Rosika Commented Jun 1, 2017 at 14:40
  • Is your system encrypted? Commented Jun 1, 2017 at 15:01
  • Hi. No, my system isn´t encrypted. It´s all a bit of a mystery to me. Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 13:04
  • Why don't you sign up at ubuntuforums.org? There maybe someone there who could help! Commented Jun 3, 2017 at 13:12

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When you start "firejail --overlay firefox", make sure you are not already running Firefox. See here: https://firejail.wordpress.com/support/frequently-asked-questions/#firefox

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  • Hi nepotu. Tnx for the answer. Alas my problem lies elsewhere. When trying to use the overlay-function firefox isn´t running. Besides the problem occurs also with thunderbird, midori, rhythmbox. Yet, as a matter of fact, gedit, leafpad and nano co-operate with "--overlay". Greetings. Rosika Commented Nov 6, 2016 at 11:33

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