Closed Bug 199522 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Unable to access stored passwords

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Other Branch
x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
blocker

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: asherman, Assigned: ssaux)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030327
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030327

I used nightly 2003031208 build. Having started this build the mozilla has
crashed with generating empty tallback information. This has happened, i gas,
after mozilla's having tried to read stored password for a page. Any attempt
(Manage Stored Passwords, for example)of this build of mozilla to read stored
information (encrypted with password) lead to an alert - "Could not initialize
the browser's security component" ... without asking the password
Only returning to the previous build allows to read the stored information.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install this build after using 2003031208 build with stored information
2. Run mozilla
3. Select Password Manager -> Manage Stored Passwords

Actual Results:  
Unable to access stored informaton (passwords)

Expected Results:  
That is wrong
-> PSM
Assignee: mstoltz → ssaux
Component: Security: General → Client Library
Product: Browser → PSM
QA Contact: carosendahl → bmartin
Version: Trunk → unspecified
This sounds like either
- your certificate database became corrupted very badly
  If this is the case, I'm sorry that your keys for your passwords are
  gone, unless you have some working backup of the *.db files in your profile.
- for some reason your *.db files or your profile directory is write protected
  I remember that I only ever saw that error message (unable to init...)
  when there was a read/write access problem to the files on disk.

Returning back to the old build resolves the problem and vice versa!
Addition to the previous post: so the database has renained  damage-free.
One more question: Did you see the message "could not init..." only once, or do
you see it all the time with some version of Mozilla?
I have seen this message many times. I have just tested one more build
(2003032904) - so the bug is still present.
I think I do not understand what problem you are reporting.

Is the message "could not init..." part of your problem?
Do you see that message only sometimes, or do you see it always with newer builds?


If I understand you correctly, you say that with new builds you are no longer
able to manage your stored passwords.

Question:
- what is the newest build that still works?
- what is the first build that is broken?
Arkady, are you still experiencing this bug in recent builds?  Did you ever
isolate the build in which it started?  Please update the bug with recent info,
or close it.
I've got no troubles scince that time. I don't remember exactly, may be I just
deleted all the stored information. Thanks, that is quite well-behaved :). 
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: PSM → Core
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.