Closed Bug 179208 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Get "The file / cannot be found. Please check the location and try again" error when using history to return to yahoo

Categories

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123662

People

(Reporter: bhorling, Assigned: darin.moz)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Recently, I have been getting the error "The file / cannot be found.  Please
check the location and try again." when using the go back button to get back to
my.yahoo.com.  I get this same error if I try to get back with the history menu,
the history pop-up on the toolbar, or if I go back to the entry before it and
try to go forward.  The initial link works fine, as does the link recorded in
the history window for that site.  This happens every time I visit the site - it
will get to the initial page correctly, follow a link from that page correctly,
but if I then try to go back I get that error.  IE on the same machine works
correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow link in toolbar to http://my.yahoo.com/
2. Follow link from my.yahoo.com to anywhere else
3. Use the back button in the toolbar to try to return to my.yahoo.com

Actual Results:  
The file / cannot be found.  Please check the location and try again.

Expected Results:  
Returned correctly to the prior page.

This may happen to other pages as well, but I cannot recall any details of such
a situation if it has happened.  This is running under OSX 10.2.
Ah, one other thing - this only seems to happen when I am logged into the site.
 If I log off and follow a link from the generic my yahoo page, it correctly
returns to that page.  If I then log in and try the same thing, I get the error.
Reporter:
Can you please clear the history and the disk ache ?
Reporter, please also test using a recent nightly build.
sounds like disk cache corruption.

reporter: please clear your disk cache and let us know if that helps.  thx!
dupe of bug 123662 or bug 168061 ?
Clearing the history does not affect the problem.

If I clear the disk cache, then go to yahoo, then follow a link, and then
return, it still fails.

If I go to yahoo, then clear the disk cache, then follow a link, then I _can_
return to the yahoo page.
I downloaded the nightly build 2002-11-10-05-1.0 (yes, I know I got the wrong
one, it's the 1.0 version).  Anyway, I ran that one and it crashed when I ran
it, which isn't surprising given it's using prefs from 1.2.  The interesting bit
is that when I restarted the 1.2 build I was using previously, the bug has
disappeared.  I can go to and from yahoo with reckless abandon.

I suppose this could be related to me accidentally running the 1.0 version, but
it could also be related to the disk cache clearing.  It did not work prefiously
when I cleared the cache, but I did not try to quit and restart after clearing
it.  So it might have been the additional quit which did it.

I can (unfortunately?) no longer seem to reproduce problem.  Is there anything
else I can test to help track it down?
the switch to a 1.0 build would have caused the disk cache to be completely
deleted due to a format change.  perhaps that explains why it now works.

resolving WORKSFORME .. reporter, please let us know if the problem comes up again.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Reopening and marking as dupe of bug 123662.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123662 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified dupe.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: httpqa → junruh
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