219243 - Bookmarks.html file gets deleted on closing browser when home directory resides on NFS mount.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 215089

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Brian Ruth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

I'm using a setup with Mac OS 10.2 integrated into a Unix environment; Unix
usernames/uids are used on the Mac via NIS, and home directories are mounted
automatically on the Mac via Netinfo (so they appear in
/private/Network/Servers), and symlinked to /home (to allow for the NIS home
directory when using a terminal window). This means that Mozilla stores its
preferences in each user's home directory in 'Library/Mozilla'.

Whilst most of this works, the bookmarks.html file keeps getting deleted upon
quitting Mozilla. Scenario is that you bookmark a page, then quit Mozilla. Next
time you start it, the bookmarks are still intact, and you can visit that page.
If you then quit Mozilla, the bookmarks.html file is deleted, and then gets
recreated as a blank file on the next start of Mozilla. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla in configuration mentioned above.
2. Bookmark a page.
3. Quit Mozilla.
4. Restart Mozilla, visit page bookmarked above.
5. Quit Mozilla again. Bookmarks.html file is then automatically deleted.

This doesn't seem to happen every time, but it is consistently reproducible.

Actual Results:  
The bookmarks.html file is deleted. When Mozilla next restarts, you just get a
default blank one.

Expected Results:  
Preserved the bookmarks!

Just a guess, but I wonder if this is due to the fact that HFS+ filesystems are
not case sensitive, whereas filesystems mounted over NFS ARE case sensitive?
Could it be a permissions/ownership issue? The NFS filesystem and the files
thereon are owned by the currently logged in user; the Mozilla binary also
therefore runs as this user, so there theoretically should be no problem. 

May possibly be related to Bugzilla ID 132784, which also mentions a problem
involving something on NFS.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

looks like bug 215089

Please reopen if you disagree

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215089 ***

Comment 2

[Brian Ruth]

Looks like it is indeed a duplicate of that one - I missed that when searching
for it in the lists...

Comment 3

[Nick Bebout]

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