Firefox 3.5 does not allow me to search with the search box

[Ara Pulido]

WORKAROUND:
Try a new profile: firefox-3.5 -ProfileManager
Please keep the old one around in case we need test cases.

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Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

In the search box I can type, suggestions are made, but if I type ENTER or click on the magnifier icon, the search does not start.

This only happens with my configuration, as in a Guest Session it works correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 10 13:07:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.30-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Addons are disabled

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

When I start the application, I get the following error in the Error Console:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml :: initialize :: line 527" data: no]

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Running

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/satchel/form-history;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIFormHistory2)

I get the error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: javascript:%20%20Components.classes["@mozilla.org/satchel/form-history;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIFormHistory2) :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 1" data: no]

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, according to this report, you are not using the most recent version of Firefox 3.5 for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.

[Antono Vasiljev (antono)]

Got similar issue with Shiretoko on Karmic:

Error in console right after start:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml :: initialize :: line 527" data: no]

But i have firefox installed from mozilla-daily-builds PPA.

apt-cache policy firefox-3.5
firefox-3.5:
  Installed: 3.5.4~hg20090917r26383+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1
  Candidate: 3.5.4~hg20090917r26383+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.4~hg20090917r26383+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.datacenter.by karmic/main Packages

[Antono Vasiljev (antono)]

I found temporaty solution:

find ~/.mozilla/ -name "formhistory.sqlite" -print | xargs rm

I removed all my search and form history databases but... If you can you can prodide them to Mozilla tracker for bug analysis ;)

[Antono Vasiljev (antono)]

And... One more datail. I was able to open every of formhistory.sqlite with sqlite3 command and browse db's schema with .schema command. So it wasn't just broken sqlite db storage file.

[trojkat (trojkat)]

I have the same issue on Karmic

 uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml :: initialize :: line 527" data: no]

apt-cache policy firefox-3.5
firefox-3.5:
  Zainstalowana: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Kandydująca: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Tabela wersji:
 *** 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Juanma (jm-mico)]

Same here! Running up to date. Really disturbing bug, made me switch to Chrome.

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml :: initialize :: line 527" data: no]

firefox-3.5:
  Installed: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Linux dell 2.6.31-11-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 25 06:37:23 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Juanma (jm-mico)]

" find ~/.mozilla/ -name "formhistory.sqlite" -print | xargs rm "
Fixed the problem for me, we will see for how long.

[Josiah Reichmuth (josiah.reichmuth)]

Affecting me too on karmic amd64 with firefox 3.5.3. Ran the command "find ~/.mozilla/ -name "formhistory.sqlite" -print | xargs rm" and the problem was fixed for me. Seemed to happen directly after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 Alphas.

[Juanma (jm-mico)]

Does not affect me any more, running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.