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After reinstalling my NFS server S (Ubuntu 14.04.5 server which stores the home directory) and client A (Kubuntu 14.04.4 desktop) suddenly Firefox and Thunderbird complain about not being able to find their profiles: "Your firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessable."

Concerning Firefox, I checked file permissions, profile.ini, cache locations without succes. I eventually deleted ~/.mozilla to enforce the creation of a new profile, but still get the same error. Obviously, the problem is not introduced by any file from ~/.mozilla.

Firefox and Thunderbird work perfectly on a different NFS client machine B (Kubuntu) which accesses the same NFS server S, using the same directory. I conclude that the problem is created by the machine, not the home dir. On the other hand, a different user can start Firefox without problems even on client A.

Has anybody any idea what could have caused this weird problem?

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Using strace firefox revealed that for some (still unknown) reason Firefox tried to locate the directory /var/cache/${USER}/.kde/mozilla/firefox which did not exist. Creating /var/cache/${USER} with proper ownership and permissions 750 helped.

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