Bug 107640 – Firefox 1.0.7 unable show saved passwords: XML Parsing Error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Juha Heljoranta 2005-09-29 13:28:27 UTC]

When clicking Edit -> Preferences Saved Passwords -> View Saved Passwords I get
a dialog displaying an error message.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge Firefox 1.0.7
2. try to view saved passwords


Actual Results:  
Following error dialog:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: chrome://passwordmgr/content/passwordManager.xul
Line Number 1, Column 1:
; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- -->
^

Is that garbage from emacs?!?

Expected Results:  
dialog displaying saved passwords

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/
http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/
http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.no/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 acpi alsa apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt directfb dvd dvdr
dvdread emul-linux-x86 fam font-server gdbm gnutls gpm hal libedit libwww
maildir matrox mmap mozsvg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive openal
opengl pam python readline sasl sdl slang ssl tcpd threads truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales utf8 xml2 xprint zlib
video_cards_matrox userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-09-29 20:05:45 UTC]

Hmm, works fine here.  Try to backup your ~/.mozilla, remove it, and see if that
fixes it.  Or maybe try with another user.

[Comment 2 Juha Heljoranta 2005-09-29 23:08:42 UTC]

Erasing of the old ~/.mozilla directory fixed the problem.

After restarting firefox several times, when using the old ~/.mozilla directory,
it started to work again.

I think Firefox started to work after it printed following into console:
Removing /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/mby19qrp.default/compreg.dat leftover
from older firefox

Seems bit odd that I had to restart it several times after the upgrade... I even
double checked that the Firefox was gone (ps -A | grep firefox) before starting
it again.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-09-30 01:13:51 UTC]

The 'old profile' issue is a known problem with the mozilla products .. not sure
when upstream will track it down.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-22 18:38:03 UTC]

*** Bug 86746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-22 19:07:24 UTC]

*** Bug 107990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-22 20:31:31 UTC]

*** Bug 89780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-06 13:33:23 UTC]

*** Bug 121872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2006-02-06 13:48:42 UTC]

Shouldn't the ebuilds print some warning about this? It can be very confusing for users, and just "if you get XUL errors see bug xxx" would be sufficient IMO.

Please see bug 121872 too (mozilla-thunderbird and mozilla-thunderbird-bin).

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-31 22:28:44 UTC]

*** Bug 142358 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***