Firejail

[FrankN209]

Ever since I ran sudo firecfg, my browsers won't launch. I have to uninstall firejail completely to get them to work. If I reinstall firejail, the problem persists. Any workaround for this?

[xenopeek]

Firecfg installs symbolics links to for the programs on your system for which there is a firejail profile, so that those programs are run with firejail by default. Uninstalling firejail wouldn't remove those symbolic links, but it would break them so that they aren't used—until you install firejail again.

I think you can remove them all with this command:
sudo firecfg --clean

Or if you currently don't have firecfg installed you will have to delete them by hand. Should be easy to spot with:
ls -l /usr/local/bin
Anything that is a symbolic link to firejail should be deleted to do the same thing as sudo firecfg --clean does.

sudo firecfg may also have placed modified .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/. That should be harmless and not play into your current issue.

[Pjotr]

Note that you need the latest stable Long Term Support Firejail from upstream, because the one in the repo's is only partly usable:
https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/

[DAMIEN1307]

ok...so i have the same problem about removing other vestiges of firejail since i uninstalled it when i couldnt configure it to work with brave browser...so how "exactly" do i get rid of these entries...is there a sudo remove, autoremove, purge etc command i can use to do so?.

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damien@damien ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/bin
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 baobab -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 bleachbit -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 chromium-browser -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 display -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 ffmpeg -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 file-roller -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 firefox -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 gedit -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 gucharmap -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 highlight -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 less -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 mate-calc -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 mate-calculator -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 mpv -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 pdftotext -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 ping -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 pluma -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 ssh -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 strings -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 wget -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 xed -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 xfburn -> /usr/bin/firejail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 30 14:44 xviewer -> /usr/bin/firejail
damien@damien ~ $ 

[xenopeek]

This should do it if you don't have firecfg:
sudo find -P /usr/local/bin/ -lname /usr/bin/firejail -print -delete

That finds all files in /usr/local/bin/ that are a link to /usr/bin/firejail, prints their name and then deletes them.

[DAMIEN1307]

thank-you xenopeek, that did the trick...DAMIEN

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damien@damien ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/bin
total 0
damien@damien ~ $ 

[xenopeek]

Well, yes, in your case you could have just delete everything in the directory The command makes sure any other readers don't delete other files by accident.

[DAMIEN1307]

i guess you noticed i run a "lean, mean, clean, fighting machine" probably why my problems are exceedingly few in nature...lol.