1772117 - Some address books are not shown after update to beta 102.0b1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect, P1)

Description

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: beta102 address book ldap entries in prefs.js

Some address books are not shown after update to beta 102.0b1 from 101.0b4.

Error console shows the address books that are being backed up on startup, and the ones not shown in the error console are also the address books that are not shown in address book tab. For example, address book "moz". But I do not see anything in error console to explain why serveral address books are not being shown.

All address books exist on disk as far as I can tell.

IMO this blocks release of 102 beta, unless we can determine this affects a tiny user population plus we have a likely fix that can be delivered soon.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: "no directory for uri=jsaddrbook://abook.sqlite" from error console

entries from error console - my earlier statement was incorrect that there were no error entries. However, abook.sqlite is the only file mentioned, and there are several other address books that are not being shown.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: files backed up at startup per error console - Screen Shot 2022-06-01 at 6.46.05 AM.png

files backed up at startup per error console - history, abook, and abook-2,3,4,5,7,10,12,15,16

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: ten address books shown in UI

Ten address books shown in UI.
(roughly) At least five are missing.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: list of address book files - part 1

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: list of address book files - part 2

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I have about 15 address books. About 7 didn't open/don't show.

It looks like the ABs with the biggest file sizes didn't open - 492kb and larger. (I'm not seeing a correlation to number of contacts in an AB - but then I also can't see all my ABs.)

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Also, address autocomplete in compose is failing. That seems like a solid clue - we've had that before. Bug 1704161? Autocomplete broken in Thunderbird 78.9.1 after downgrade from recent Thunderbird beta.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Do you have backup so you can re-do it? And if you do, can you remove some address books first, to see if this is a problem with a specific ab or not.

I also wonder if there's any correlation with mailnews.pop3.jsmodule, true/false and/or the realhostname migration (changing timings??)
xref https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/7923bcceab6029d38d0be76a021424b300997dbe/mailnews/base/src/MsgIncomingServer.jsm#354

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #8)

Do you have backup so you can re-do it? And if you do, can you remove some address books first, to see if this is a problem with a specific ab or not.

I do have a backup. But I don't think any of the address books are corrupted. (Correction - I was wrong about address autocomplete in comment 7. It is working for the address books that are being displayed)

The following changes did not help:

• safe mode
• removing ldap server
• deleting one of the smaller address books

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Discovered the missing address books is caused by read-only address book database files