198596 - No history recorded after installing Mozilla 1.3

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

Description

[Marko Myllymäki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319 Debian/1.3-3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319 Debian/1.3-3

I installed the new debian mozilla package 1.3-3. The most striking bug that I
found is that page history is not saved at all. If I visit several sites by
typing their URLs in the location bar, history list seems to be empty
afterwards. Also location pulldown menu says "Nothing available", though there
should be many entries. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit several sites by typing their URLs
2. See location pulldown menu - no entries
3. "Go" - "History" -menu is empty too.

Actual Results:  
No history recorded.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have saved those urls to page history.

I suspect that the problem is due the debian package. This error is not
reproduced with Red Hat package

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

related? bug 126826

Comment 2

[Mikael Nilsson]

Confirmed on Debian, with 1.3-3.

The history.txt file *is* being written to, actually. Removing my ~/.mozilla and
running mozilla again gives history.dat:

// <!-- <mdb:mork:z v="1.4"/> -->
< <(a=c)> // (f=iso-8859-1)
  (8A=Typed)(8B=LastPageVisited)(80=ns:history:db:row:scope:history:all)
  (81=ns:history:db:table:kind:history)(82=URL)(83=Referrer)
  (84=LastVisitDate)(85=FirstVisitDate)(86=VisitCount)(87=Name)
  (88=Hostname)(89=Hidden)>
{1:^80 {(k^81:c)(s=9u)} }
 
@$${1{@
@$$}1}@
 
@$${3{@
{1:^80 {(k^81:c)(s=9u)[-1]} }
@$$}3}@


and history.txt:
1048346519503:http://slashdot.org/
1048346465970:file:///usr/share/doc/mozilla-browser/localstart.html
1048346497445:http://expressen.se/

Which are precisely the sites I visited. But Ctrl-H gives an empty history list,
and autocomplete does not find any matches.

The Debian bug is possibly

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=185302

/Mikael

Comment 3

[Éric Seigne]

I've tried 

 - mv ~/.mozilla /tmp
 - run mozilla (it makes "new" ~/.mozilla)
 - go on some websites
 - exit mozilla
 - re run mozilla
 -> history is empty :(

Comment 4

[Kasumi]

Sarah: Please change QA contact to correct person.

Comment 5

[Mikael Nilsson]

I have a simple fix (from the Debian Bug):

Purge the mozilla-browser package and reinstall. Suddenly it works!
I didn't even have to remove .mozilla.

Seems like a Debian packaging issue? Or can this be mozilla's fault? Something
in /etc/mozilla?

Comment 6

[Éric Seigne]

Okay, it works well now apt-get remove mozilla-browser then reinstall it ....
i'm sorry, it was a debian-only bug, not mozilla one !

Thanks for this very great software !
Éric

Comment 7

[Luke Reeves]

I can confirm as well, under Debian unstable.  A purge and re-install fixed
everything.

Comment 8

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

This seems to be caused by the presence of a libembed_lite.so file in
/usr/lib/mozilla/components. As a workaround, try removing that file. As that
file seems to be only present in debian packages, marking INVALID because
debian-specific.