255515 - [Linux] Bookmarks export fails

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 241987

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Angelo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+

Exporting bookmarks fails with the file not created and bookmarks are frozen
(can't delete or add any other)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try Export the bookmarks
Actual Results:  
No file created and bookmarks messed up

Expected Results:  
All works good :)

Comment 1

[Angelo]

frozen bookmarks is not always reproducible, it happened to me only the first
time, with 08/13 branch still export fails but no bookmarks messed up

Comment 2

[Steffen Wilberg]

I can reproduce this with a similar build.

The js console shows this error:
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012
(NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIRDFDataSource.DoCommand]"  nsresult: "0x80520012
(NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarks.js :: anonymous :: line 361"  data: no]
Source File: chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarks.js
Line: 361

That's in doBookmarksCommand(), this line:
BMDS.DoCommand(sourcesArray, rCommand, argsArray);

This is a similar problem as bug 255069, although that one's about exporting to
a non-default name. But I can't even export using the default name.
-> confirming.

Comment 3

[Steve Clark]

This is a dupe of bug 241987.  The workaround is that if you touch bookmark.html
(or whatever) before exporting then you will be prompted to overwrite, then it
will work.  The file just has to exist before exporting due to a bug in
bookmarks.js.

Comment 4

[Steve Clark]

It is possible to apply the patch from bug 241987 on Linux yourself.  You need
to have the Java sdk installed.  First get rid of fastjar and replace it with
the jar from the java kit.  fastjar is buggy code. The procedure I found was:

cd /tmp
cp /usr/local/mozilla/chrome/comm.jar .
jar xvf comm.jar
Error! CRCs do not match! Got 5e52bf8, expected 6e16769
delete /usr/bin/fastjar and replace with a link to  /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/jar
jar xvf comm.jar
mv comm.jar comm.orig
cd content/communicator/bookmarks/
cp bookmarks.js /tmp/bookmarks.orig
patch bookmarks.js patchfile   -- or just edit
cd /tmp
jar cv0f comm.jar content
cp comm.jar /usr/local/mozilla/chrome/

restart mozilla - try exporting a new bookmark file - Worked!

Comment 5

[Steve Clark]

Dang.  Previous comment was mozilla instructions. Always proofread.  Corrected
instructions assuming you unstalled in /opt/firefox are:

cd /tmp
cp /opt/firefox/chrome/browser.jar .
jar xvf browser.jar
mv browser.jar browser.orig
cd content/browser/bookmarks/
cp bookmarks.js /tmp/bookmarks.orig
patch bookmarks.js patchfile   -- or just edit
cd /tmp
jar cv0f browser.jar content
cp browser.jar /opt/firefox/chrome/

The strange thing is that this patch appears to be there already in:
  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Did it get removed or lost?

Comment 6

[Anbo Motohiko]

I have same problem on WinMe with 2004-09-01-0.9.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; ja-JP; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040901
Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)


When export them to no-exist file, I got an error message
in JS console:
> Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012
(NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIRDFDataSource.DoCommand]"  nsresult: "0x80520012
(NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarks.js :: anonymous :: line 368"  data: no]
> Source File: chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarks.js
> Line: 368


And I made an empty file named 'bookmarks.html' and
overwrite it, exporting bookmarks successfully finished.

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241987 ***

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change