OS X/Linux: detect filesystems that do not allow colon for linux-profile:

git-svn-id: https://exe.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/exe/trunk@3567 38b22f21-9aea-0310-abfc-843a9883df58

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0ca0598..9bb076c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 * Fix image gallery to allow captions containing apostrophes
 * Fix field IDs so that adding to a previously saved elp is consistent
 * Fix Common Cartridge manifest when a header image is used
+* Fix OS X and Linux configDir Firefox profile on filesystem without colon
 * Only include a copy of GNU FDL if that is the license selected
 * Re-enable loading of user extended iDevices from config directory
 * Translation updates
diff --git a/exe/webui/browser.py b/exe/webui/browser.py
index 179c3a3..7465bc0 100755
--- a/exe/webui/browser.py
+++ b/exe/webui/browser.py
@@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ def launchBrowser(config, packageName, openMode):
         # workaround Debian/Ubuntu firefox launching script that requires
         # ':/' in the pathname
         profile = "linux-profile:"
+        # attempt to detect filesystems that won't allow a colon
+        try:
+            if (config.configDir/profile).exists():
+                (config.configDir/profile).rmtree()
+            config.configDir/profile).mkdir()
+        except (OSError, IOError):
+            log.info("Unable to use linux-profile:")
+            profile = "linux-profile"
 
     if (config.configDir/profile).exists():
         (config.configDir/profile).rmtree()