Closed
Bug 285371
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
XML Parsing error on about and other dialogs: undefined entities
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: mcfletch, Unassigned)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050222 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050222 Firefox/1.0 This is Firefox 1.0.1 built from source on a Gentoo AMD64 box using the ~amd64 ebuild and installed over Firefox 1.0, both using the mozsvg USE flag. On selecting Help|About, a Gecko dialog appears with the message (note, this is copied manually, as copy/paste doesn't work for the gecko dialog): XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul Line Number 19, Column 16: title="&aboutDialog.title;" creditsLabel="©right;" aboutLabel="&aboutLink;" _________________^ Similar errors show up for every dialog-based choice under the tools, help and bookmarks menu. Even just typing about: in the address bar gives this error: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/about.xhtml Line Number 68, Column 52:<img src="chrome://browser/content/about.png" alt="&brandShortName;"/></a> ---------------------------------------------------^ I'm wondering if it may be a problem with the theme that was installed with Firefox 1.0 (Plastikfox Crystal SVG) not being compatible with 1.0.1, but I was under the impression that Firefox is supposed to disable those themes not known to work with the current version when doing an upgrade. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge firefox 1.0.1 over firefox 1.0 2. open firefox 3. choose Help|About, or any other dialog-based dialog Actual Results: Gecko dialog about undefined entities. Expected Results: The selected dialog. about:buildconfig Build platform target x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Build tools Compiler Version Compiler flags gcc gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6) -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -fPIC -pthread -pipe c++ gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6) -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -fPIC -Wno-deprecated -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe Configure arguments --disable-ldap --disable-mailnews --enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize=-O1 --enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers --disable-installer --disable-pedantic --enable-crypto --with-system-jpeg --with-system-png --with-system-zlib --without-system-nspr --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-ipv6 --disable-xinerama --disable-xprint --enable-freetype2 --enable-freetypetest --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-reorder --enable-strip --enable-strip-libs --enable-xft --enable-oji --enable-mathml --disable-jsd --disable-xpctools --disable-gnomevfs --enable-svg --enable-svg-renderer-cairo --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth,-venkman,-gnomevfs --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --loc
(In reply to comment #0) > This is Firefox 1.0.1 built from source on a Gentoo AMD64 box using the ~amd64 > ebuild and installed over Firefox 1.0, Says it all. Don't install over. Deinstall properly and install then. Perhaps you need a new profile too. If this helps, please resolve as invalid.
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
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Comment 2•19 years ago
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Okay, uninstalling and re-installing alone did not help (emerge unmerge firefox, emerge firefox). Creating a new profile did eliminate the problem, but I'm not sure about marking this "invalid", isn't this something that should be fixed? I mean you shouldn't have to manually recreate a profile (i.e. copy all the important data over)... seems a bit involved for a point upgrade... shouldn't firefox be noticing the out-of-date information in the profile and cleaning it up? Still, that was what was requested, so I suppose I'll mark it as such. Thanks for the pointer.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Comment 3•19 years ago
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Spoke too soon. Starting firefox with firefox --ProfileManager and then selecting the new profile (now the only profile) does load in such a way that the bug is fixed, but just running firefox without --ProfileManager produces the same symptoms.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Comment 4•19 years ago
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Perhaps this bug should be renamed to something like "XBL parsing errors when upgrading to 1.0.1 with old profile" or something? Or, mark as invalid and file a new bug report if you can find some foolproof steps to reproduce.
Comment 5•19 years ago
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Comment 6•19 years ago
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*** Bug 310621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•17 years ago
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Assignee: bross2 → nobody
Comment 7•17 years ago
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Since this worked with a clean profile, I'm going to close it as "works for me". If you're able to reproduce with Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later using a new profile, please reopen with detailed steps. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago → 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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