I recently updated from gnome-vfs2-2.8.3nb1 to gnome-vfs2-2.10.0 and
libgnome-2.8.0nb1 to libgnome-2.10.0 and now firefox won't install in my
chrooted build environment.

(Gecko:16753): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2
directory: No such file or directory
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/root/.gnome2/':
No such file or directory

cd /usr/lib/firefox &&  /usr/bin/env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=.
HOME=/tmp/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work.montecristo/mozilla  ./firefox-bin
-register

(Gecko:16911): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2
directory: No such file or directory
 such file or directory
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/root/.gnome2/':
No such file or directory
*** Error code 1


Of course, the work-around is easy: create /root.

But why?

And where is this firefox-bin -register option documented?

 Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. I have seen similar kde warnings too, but didn't cause failures.