1492491 - Crash makes profile unusable until deleting cache2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1490585

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect)

Description

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I'm using Firefox trunk on windows 10

While opening a Bugzilla bug link from Thunderbird in Firefox I got a crash.
From that moment Firefox always crashed on startup, safemode didn't helped and Firefox62 also crashed with that profile.

This happened on my laptop and I used the "refresh" function to repair the profile.

[@ Gecko_SetLengthString ]
bp-7c975ba2-fcf1-4705-a89c-742ad0180918     
bp-1b3f937e-80da-4ff2-a668-624220180918     
bp-4fcb89d0-69fa-49b3-8cc0-94bc00180918    

A few hours later got the same crash on my Desktop system
I fixed that Firefox user profile with renaming the "cache2" directory.

[@ nsSSLStatus::~nsSSLStatus ]
bp-09d30fd7-9ff7-45b0-8755-d25970180919 	
bp-b621661b-d26d-43c6-a314-b6f8e0180919 	
bp-cbf320b0-ea1e-43c8-ae9d-da20b0180919

Comment 1

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Woo... this sounds serious.  Do you also have the original profile that was causing the first set of crashes?  I would be very interested in trying this locally with at least the cache2 faulty directory, would you be willing to provide it?

Comment 2

[J.C. Jones [:jcj] (he/they)]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of Bug 1490585. Keeler, can you confirm?

Comment 3

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler]]

Almost certainly.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I have the "broken" cache2 directory but it seems that it's no longer necessary.
bug 1490585 is marked security/confidential and that explains why I didn't find anything about it :-)

Comment 5

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #4)
> I have the "broken" cache2 directory but it seems that it's no longer
> necessary.
> bug 1490585 is marked security/confidential and that explains why I didn't
> find anything about it :-)

I was not aware too. thanks! :)