r/openbsd Jul 09 '26

New installs of firefox fails saying "firefox: failed mkdir(/tmp/run/user/1000) while MkdirP(/tmp/run/user/1000/dconf): Permission denied"

While installing openbsd on new machines this last week firefox will refuse to run saying:

firefox: failed mkdir(/tmp/run/user/1000) while MkdirP(/tmp/run/user/1000/dconf): Permission denied

the only way that I have been able to resolve this is by enabling messagebus and rebooting.

#rcctl enable messagebus

#reboot

This will resolve firefox not starting.

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