Firefox 3.03 Corrupted

[Antonio Bequer]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox 3.03 (3.03+build1+nobinonly+0ubuntu0.8.04.1) on Ubuntu 8.04 became corrupted. This included
- no access to my previous bookmarks,
- no ability to restore bookmarks (bookmark restore),
- no ability to load bookmarks from .html file,
- would not load homepages with home button even though they were still in Edit>Preferences>Main
- pages would load but the spinning indicator on the tab would keep spinning, and
- forward and back were not working.

I tried to archive ~/.mozilla but was unable to do so. The problem was that ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxx.default/sessionstore.js had been chown'ed to root.

Possible cause: I ran tilp2 (release 1.01-0ubuntu2) using "sudo tilp" and then accessed tilp's Help > Help Contents which opened a Firefox window.

Solution: I closed Firefox and from the terminal, I did "mv .mozilla .mozilla.bak" and then restarted Firefox. All is now well. I was able to restore my bookmarks from the json file in .mozilla.bak without problem and all functions are now normal.

AB

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 3 06:52:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Antonio Bequer (becker-stolaf)]

Thanks for getting back to me. What I have done instead is to not use tilp2
so this is not an issue (for me) any more. (Instead I run TI's calculator
access program in a WinXP VM under VirtualBox.) I have an Ubuntu 8.10 VM
and will see if I can reproduce the problem there.

AB

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Firefox 3.03 Corrupted
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277705
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "firefox-3.0" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Firefox 3.03 (3.03+build1+nobinonly+0ubuntu0.8.04.1) on Ubuntu 8.04 became
> corrupted. This included
> - no access to my previous bookmarks,
> - no ability to restore bookmarks (bookmark restore),
> - no ability to load bookmarks from .html file,
> - would not load homepages with home button even though they were still in
> Edit>Preferences>Main
> - pages would load but the spinning indicator on the tab would keep
> spinning, and
> - forward and back were not working.
>
> I tried to archive ~/.mozilla but was unable to do so. The problem was
> that ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxx.default/sessionstore.js had been chown'ed to
> root.
>
> Possible cause: I ran tilp2 (release 1.01-0ubuntu2) using "sudo tilp" and
> then accessed tilp's Help > Help Contents which opened a Firefox window.
>
> Solution: I closed Firefox and from the terminal, I did "mv .mozilla
> .mozilla.bak" and then restarted Firefox. All is now well. I was able to
> restore my bookmarks from the json file in .mozilla.bak without problem and
> all functions are now normal.
>
> AB
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Oct 3 06:52:37 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
>

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem. Please reopen it if you encounter that this issue is still occurring or even better if you can check in latest Ubuntu Karmic version. To reopen the bug report you can click under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[karl (karl-sebastian-liebich)]

Sorry. The bug I reported and which is a duplicate of this bug ist no longer an issue.
Thanks for paying attention.

karl