1971697 - [Nightly updates halted] Firefox doesn't start, restore not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1971638

(Firefox :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel] {{ fyi: PTO Dec 20 - Jan 4 }}]

I restarted on latest Nightly 141.0a1 (2025-06-11) (64-Bit) 20250611215745 and

• Firefox session restore didn't restore my tabs
• Bookmark menu doesn't show up
• image missing in application menu

At least one other user can confirm (#firefox channel on slack)

These errors show up in console:

11:11:28.845
Error: Error(s) encountered during statement execution: no such table: moz_newtab_story_click_idx_newtab_click_timestamp
    handleCompletion resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.sys.mjs:1093
PlacesDBUtils.sys.mjs:1288:17
    getEntitiesStatsAndCounts resource://gre/modules/PlacesDBUtils.sys.mjs:1288
11:11:28.846
Error: Error(s) encountered during statement execution: no such table: moz_newtab_story_click_idx_newtab_impression_timestamp
    handleCompletion resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.sys.mjs:1093
PlacesDBUtils.sys.mjs:1288:17
    getEntitiesStatsAndCounts resource://gre/modules/PlacesDBUtils.sys.mjs:1288

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This appears related to the inferred personalization setup. Tagging a few folks who might have more context

Comment 2

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel] {{ fyi: PTO Dec 20 - Jan 4 }}]

OS potentially linux, as me and other reporter both are on linux.
Reverting back to 20250610214301 likely fixes the problem.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The errors look the same as those in bug 1963439 comment 4 which was meant to have been fixed by bug 1965852

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The error in PlacesDBUtils is Bug 1968228, I am not expecting it to cause issues outside of the console error though.
getEntitiesStatsAndCounts is only used in about:support, in the interactions viewer (unlikely to be used) and in about:deleteprofile

It's possible the restored session included about:support or about:deleteprofile. In that case the page may be broken, but there should be absolutely no consequence on session restore, the bookmarks menu, or images in menus.

Thus, while I can fix Bug 1968228, I suspect the PlacesDBUtils errors are just a red herring.

Comment 5

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel] {{ fyi: PTO Dec 20 - Jan 4 }}]

I did mozregression twice (I think I did a mistake on the first run).

The second mozregression run https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=36ff3b312a9ef4502b71202b7af3c38a39114f7a&tochange=1b7c850236412a412c208a06ef51ad7036476d6c (Bug 1971161) is a more plausible result with a regression bug with same symtoms already reported: Bug 1971638.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

After checking the code, we try/catch potential errors in getEntitiesStatsAndCounts so the Console error can be safely ignored, it's not the cause of any of these issues.

Moving back to General for now as I don't see relation to New Tab nor Places.