194352 - Syntax error on prefs.js

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Gualter Barbas Baptista]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/00200302

After a crash in the X-server while shutting down, the preferences where gone. I do not 
remember if Mozilla was still open when this happened. 
Running Mozilla from a terminal windows gives the following result: 
 
An error occurred reading the startup configuration file.  Please contact your administrator. 
 
SyntaxError: syntax error.  (a=c)> // (f=iso-8859-1) 
 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Crash on shutdown... 
2. 
3. 


Expected Results:  
Written a prefs.js that he could understand himself ;) 

I'm attaching the beginning of my prefs.js: 
 
// <!-- <mdb:mork:z v="1.4"/> --> 
< <(a=c)> // (f=iso-8859-1) 
  (80=ns:msg:db:row:scope:msgs:all)(81=subject)(82=sender)(83=message-id) 
  (84=references)(85=recipients)(86=date)(87=size)(88=flags)(89=priority) 
  (8A=label)(8B=statusOfset)(8C=numLines)(8D=ccList)(8E=msgThreadId) 
  (8F=threadId)(90=threadFlags)(91=children)(92=unreadChildren) 
  (93=threadSubject)(94=numRefs)(95=msgCharSet) 
  (96=ns:msg:db:table:kind:msgs)(97=ns:msg:db:table:kind:thread) 
  (98=ns:msg:db:table:kind:allthreads) 
  (99=ns:msg:db:row:scope:threads:all)(9A=threadParent)(9B=threadRoot) 
  (9C=msgOffset)(9D=offlineMsgSize) 
  (9E=ns:msg:db:row:scope:dbfolderinfo:all) 
  (9F=ns:msg:db:table:kind:dbfolderinfo)(A0=numVisMsgs)(A1=numMsgs) 
  (A2=numNewMsgs)(A3=folderSize)(A4=expungedBytes)(A5=folderDate) 
  (A6=highWaterKey)(A7=mailboxName)(A8=UIDValidity)(A9=totPendingMsgs) 
  (AA=unreadPendingMsgs)(AB=expiredMark)(AC=version)(AD=folderName) 
  (AE=viewType)(AF=viewFlags)(B0=sortType)(B1=sortOrder)> 
<(80=1)(8D=fffffffe)>[1:m(^9B=1)(^8F^8D)(^91=1)]

Comment 1

[timeless]

that's not a prefs file, it's a mork file (mailnews)

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

well, it looks like mork data got written into prefs.js - how that could happen
is beyond me. That looks like a .msf file, in particular. If you attach more, we
could probably figure out which mail folder that's a .msf file for.

Comment 3

[Gualter Barbas Baptista]

Attachment: My prefs.js that seem to have got mork data in

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

I could be wrong, but that file also looks like it has some history.dat
information as well (another mork file) - this looks almost like a disk
corruption issue.

Comment 5

[Gualter Barbas Baptista]

It's possible that it might be disk corruption. I just figured out that my KDE menus have 
changed - the SuSE menus were replaced by the default KDE menus. 
So, in the end probably it's not a Mozilla bug? 

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

It would be about the most unlikely mozilla bug I've ever heard of :-) so yes,
my guess is that it's not a mozilla bug.

Comment 7

[Gualter Barbas Baptista]

So, lets assume this is not a Mozilla bug :)

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v inv per reporter.