46789 – Mozilla Firefox doesn't know how to handle 'unknown contents'; gives XUL error

Bug 46789 - Mozilla Firefox doesn't know how to handle 'unknown contents'; gives XUL error

Summary: Mozilla Firefox doesn't know how to handle 'unknown contents'; gives XUL error

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Reported:	2004-04-04 12:00 UTC by bugs.gentoo.org
Modified:	2004-04-26 07:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description bugs.gentoo.org 2004-04-04 12:00:59 UTC

When using Mozilla Firefox to handle links non-html such as .tar.gz files or .pdf files, it gives a dialog which says 'XML parsing error: not well-formed Location: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/unknownContentType.xul; Line Number 1, Column 5: tent/mozapps/downloads/unknownContentType.xulUT'.

I've got the feeling this 'tent' mentioned above is the last part of 'content'.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE=~x86 emerge -Duva net-www/mozilla-firefox-0.8-r2
2. start mozilla
3. try to go to http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-0.5.3.tar.gz

Actual Results:  
Error dialog.

Expected Results:  
Start downloading ;)


Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0,
2.6.5-rc3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-rc3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/hotplug /etc/init.d /etc/kismet /etc/ssl
/etc/terminfo /etc/udev /usr /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d aalib accessibility acpi acpi4linux alsa avi berkdb bidi bindist
bonobo caps cddb cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga dillo directfb dnd dvd emacs
encode evo faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb gb gdbm gif gnome
gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib irda jack java
javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg kde lcms ldap libdsk libg++ libgda libwww
lirc ltsp mad mbox memlimit mikmod mmx mng motif mozcalendar mozilla moznoirc
moznomail mozsvg mpeg msn music ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl
pic png ppds python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba scanner sdl skey sox
speedo spell sse ssl stencil-buffer t1lib tcltk tcpd theora tiff
transparent-proxy truetype type1 usb v4l vim-with-x wmf x86 xchattext xemacs
xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib zvbi"

Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-26 07:33:19 UTC

You can fix this by doing:

emerge -C mozilla-firefox
rm -rf /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox
emerge mozilla-firefox

The most recent mozilla-firefox ebuild does this automatically to alleviate problems like this.