593965 - Error when running search from search box

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Kevin Dangoor]

I'm running minefield nightlies (currently Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100905 Firefox/4.0b6pre)

When running 3.6.x with this profile, I can run searches just fine. However, running Minefield with this profile, I get this error when running searches:

Error: [Exception... "'DB failed getting form autocomplete values' when calling method: [nsIFormAutoComplete::autoCompleteSearch]"  nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)"  location: "JS frame :: jar:file:///Applications/Minefield.app/Contents/MacOS/omni.jar!/components/nsSearchSuggestions.js :: SAC_SHSearch :: line 425"  data: no]
Source File: jar:file:///Applications/Minefield.app/Contents/MacOS/omni.jar!/components/nsSearchSuggestions.js
Line: 425

(FWIW, I can run searches from the location bar, which makes sense because that doesn't autocomplete searches).

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

For which search engine? Do you see any errors in the error console? Have you also tried in safe mode?

Comment 2

[Kevin Dangoor]

Google is the search engine, the error on the error console is the one above. I have recently started Minefield in safe mode and all of my extensions are disabled.

Additional piece of info: the search completions do actually appear, but it does not run the search when I hit enter. The error in the description appears for each keystroke that I type in the search box.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

In the error console please click the link which points to the line of the error. Please post it here.

Also please run Firefox with a fresh profile for testing purposes and check if that fixes the problem. If yes, we have to check which file in your original profile is causing this error.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It's likely formhistory.sqlite, given the exception in comment 0. Presumably form autocomplete for web input fields is broken too? I don't know of any existing bugs on form history corruption - that may be kind of hard to debug if it's a one-time thing.