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Showing posts with label tmpfs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tmpfs. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2015

Firefox add on could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt

Just a quick reference for those out there that encounter this problem. Today I was having problems with Firefox failing to save any pictures to my harddrive. The moment I clicked "Save as..." the screen would blink and there would be a "Failed' item under my downloads list.

I tried Refreshing Firefox and also creating a couple of new Firefox profiles. But when I tried to Refresh or create a new profile, I encountered this error message:

"This add on could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt."

I have never seen this error before. Soon all the add-ons from Mozilla I tried to install were seemingly corrupt. More and more digging finally lead me to an unlikely problem:

On my Linux machine, the /tmpfs drive (located in /run/user/1000) had completely filled up. This has also likely been the source of problems with Ktorrent not functioning properly.

So to those who encounter this problem: Clear your tmpfs! I rebooted and it solved the problem temporarily.