"Report a Bug ..." attempts to go to invalid URL

[Tim Johnson]

Binary package hint: firefox

Help -> Report a Bug...

File not found

Firefox can't find the file at /home/daniel/"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+filebug/"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 21 12:36:06 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux PCDaniel 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

(Originally submitted in German)

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

I am sorry but we only can take bugs in english. Can you please translate this bug into english so we can process this bug further.

[Tim Johnson (tuxim-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you read the text now?

[Dexter (dexterp37)]

That happens to me too! To reproduce on Feisty:

- Open Firefox
- Help -> Report a Bug..

- It will open a page stating

"File Not Found

Firefox can't find the file at /home/dexter/"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+filebug/gLx1zUoLTZUYRth2OQK0gg4DSl5?"."

JavaScript error console reports two errors related to the bug:

1. Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method Location.toString

2. Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a [nsIURIFixup.createFixupURI]" nsresult: "0x804b000a (<unknown>)" location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/firefox/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js :: resolveURIInternal :: line 99" data: no]
Source File: file:///usr/lib/firefox/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js
Line: 102

Hope it helps

[era (era)]

Confirming, I was able to trivially repro.

Selecting the "Report a Bug ..." item on the Help menu causes Firefox to display a "collecting problem information ..." dialog for longer than I liked, then open a new window (seems to me like a new Firefox instance, even!) with the "Problem loading page" error message and the URL file:///home/era/%22https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+filebug/lZegKa5BypJ6QLwTkrjCGRlUoco?%22 in the location box.

The instance on pts/0 is where I'm writing this, and where I selected the "Report a Bug ..." menu item. The one without a controlling terminal is a second instance, clearly started by the bug reporter. It's running on a non-default profile (latest non-default profile which I quit from while confirming repro steps for LP bug #163656, ironically):

vnix$ ps wallx | fgrep firefox
0 1000 5753 5447 15 0 249240 87396 - Sl pts/0 7:25 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
0 1000 10376 1 15 0 145216 43432 - Ssl ? 0:09 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin "https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+filebug/lZegKa5BypJ6QLwTkrjCGRlUoco?" -a firefox

[era (era)]

The previous comment was on a Feisty machine. On Gutsy, it seems I can no longer repro.

[era (era)]

I'm guessing this would have been refactored and perhaps fixed in 2.0.0.3+3-0ubuntu1 ubuntu-look-and-feel-report-a-bug-menuitem.patch

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

thanks for the info. This is a python/apport issue after all which is definitly known. I don't have the bug id at hand though.

 - Alexander