316861 - Preferences do not hold between sessions

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Tom Keller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.2; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier: 1.0b1

Neither the home page nor the history preferences hold after I quit Camino and then open it again. I have not looked at the other preferences.

A previous report of this problem indicates that the problem has been resolved. However, it is not resolved in my computer. Running Mac OS X 10.3.9.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open preferences. 
2. set home page to blank and history to 2 days. 
3. Quit Camino.
4. Re-open Camino.

Actual Results:  
Home page reverts to Mozilla and history to 0 days, apparently the default.

Expected Results:  
Retained the preferences.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Can you move aside your ~/Library/Application Support/Camino folder and start Camino (that will force Camino to recreate a new profile folder), set some prefs, and see if they stick now?

Comment 2

[Tom Keller]

> Can you move aside your ~/Library/Application Support/Camino folder and start
> Camino (that will force Camino to recreate a new profile folder), set some
> prefs, and see if they stick now?

Tried it, putting the subject folder in the trash (did not empty it). History and home page preferences did not stick. 

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

where is your home directory? local machine or a netboot server? sounds like we're not writing any prefs for some reason.

also, maybe try repairing permissions, maybe you don't have write access to that part of your account?

Comment 4

[Tom Keller]

(In reply to comment #3)
> where is your home directory? local machine or a netboot server? sounds like
> we're not writing any prefs for some reason.
> 
> also, maybe try repairing permissions, maybe you don't have write access to
> that part of your account?

Local machine. Tried repairing permissions. No effect. I have administrator privileges or whatever they are called. Checked another preference, security. Changed the preference there. Did not hold. If of any help, I am running OS X 10.3.9. I also tried resetting Camino. No positive effect.

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

If you launch Camino, change some prefs, and quit Camino, do you see anything in your Console.log (accessed via the Console.app in /Applications/Utilities)?

(There will be lots of stuff in the log, but does anything get written from the time you launch Camino until it has completely quit?  There will be a number of lines like 
Feb  4 08:34:42 Krak-des-Chevaliers /Applications/Internet/Camino.app/Contents/MacOS/Camino: objc: Both /Applications/Internet/Camino.app/Contents/PreferencePanes/Appearance.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Appearance and /Applications/Internet/Camino.app/Contents/PreferencePanes/Downloads.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Downloads have implementations of class PreferencePaneBase.
but they are normal.)

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Tom, can you please update us on the questions in comment 5?

Comment 7

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Closing WFM due to lack of updates.  If you can supply the requested information, you may reopen this bug.

Comment 8

[Tom Keller]

Did not spend the time looking at the log. To be frank, I just went back to Safari.

At some point, the preferences started to hold again. May have been with a new version of Foxfire that I downloaded.

All is well now.