1763599 - Can't add CardDAV Address Book: "No dirPrefId!"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Lienart]

Attachment: CardDAV Address Book import fails error console details.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Steps to reproduce:

File > New > CardDAV Address Book

Type the login details and WebDAV link https://ecloud.global/remote.php/dav/addressbooks/users/[MY USERNAME]@e.email/[ADDRESS BOOK NAME]/

Enter password

Actual results:

Thunderbird tells me that "ecloud.global is known to be incompatible with Thunderbird" and nothing happens.

Expected results:

It should have imported the address book, I did it a few months ago with another address book from this account and it worked (it's still syncing but I can't import it again as I get the same error message).

Error console says that : NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE: No dirPrefId!
See attached txt file for more details

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

By any chance do you have an address book provided by an add-on? I can see how one might cause this problem. If you do, temporarily disabling the add-on should allow you to create the address book.

Thunderbird tells me that "ecloud.global is known to be incompatible with Thunderbird" and nothing happens.

Hmm, this is the wrong message. It should say "Failed to connect." but because the error is NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE the code assumes it comes from something else.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Lienart]

(In reply to Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) from comment #1)

By any chance do you have an address book provided by an add-on? I can see how one might cause this problem. If you do, temporarily disabling the add-on should allow you to create the address book.

Thanks, I disabled Owl temporarily and it worked! Do you know if this is still a bug with Thnuderbird?

Thunderbird tells me that "ecloud.global is known to be incompatible with Thunderbird" and nothing happens.

Hmm, this is the wrong message. It should say "Failed to connect." but because the error is NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE the code assumes it comes from something else.
This is the only error that kept on happening every time I tried.

Thanks for your help!

Comment 3

[Nicolas Lienart]

Sorry this sentence was not supposed to be quoted from you :
"This is the only error that kept on happening every time I tried."

Comment 4

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Yes, this is a bug in Thunderbird, not in Owl. I'll get it fixed.

Comment 5

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1763599 - Avoid exception when checking if a CardDAV directory already exists. r=mkmelin

Some address book types (notably the WebExtension API type) may throw an exception when checking their properties. Only check CardDAV directories which won't throw an exception.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/80377006ecff
Avoid exception when checking if a CardDAV directory already exists. r=mkmelin