After a system crash I lost all saved bookmarks in firefox. This happens more than one time. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. install radeon framebuffer with development-sources 2.6.9-rc3 and ati-drivers together 2. 3. Expected Results: I don't want to lose my bookmarkss Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.9-rc3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cddb cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib innodb jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_de live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses network nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
could you give more details about the system crash? what is causing it, maybe paste some logs too. Thanks.. and btw, did you try using a stable kernel?
I tested development-sources 2.6.9-rc3 and the actual gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 with the frame buffer (radeon fb) and ati-drivers (fglrx). When I tried to switch from X11 to the console or when I tried to restart X11 the screen got screwed and the system does not accepted any keyboard input. The only solution was to switch off the power. After rebooting I got fsck - messages from fsck.xfs and fsck.reiserfs (/var is reiserfs because of the thousand of portage files, the rest is xfs) and all of my bookmark where lost. The only good thing was that the history of firefox was ok. Is it possible that firefox opens the bookmark file the whole time so that in case of power outage the open file is lost during recovery ?
Sorry, there's nothing we can do in mozilla-land about system crashes losing data. I understand your concern regarding firefox holding the file open. I'm pretty sure that isn't the case. Personally I keep my bookmarks in cvs then set in user.js: user_pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "/usr/local/home/agriffis/skel/bookmarks.html"); Maybe that will help to keep you from losing them... at least you would have the previous revision.
