257718 - bookmarks.html, prefs.js, and history.dat overwritten

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193749

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Steven Augart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

I started up Mozilla yesterday and suddenly all of my bookmarks were gone.  My
email settings were also gone -- it appears that prefs.js has been trashed. 
This also gives the appearance of my signons having been trashed (in fact, what
happened is that the user_pref property signon.SignonFileName was set to a new
file.)  The replaced bookmarks.html file, for some reason, had two of the
bookmarks from the former (heavily populated) version, but no more.

I had shut down and started up the O/S normally; there were no odd circumstances
associated with this crash.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
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I am posting a new bug report so that folks know that this is happening with the
current stable release, rather than just being an old bug that we hope has gone
away by itself.

Comment 1

[Steven Augart]

I should add here that the disk was not full.

This bug reminds me of bug #164244.  The difference is that this time the
bookmarks file was not replaced with a default bookmarks file, but rather with
one that contained two bookmarks from the previous file.

Comment 2

[Steven Augart]

history.dat was also overwritten.
cookies.txt was not.
localstore.rdf was not.
downloads.rdf was not.

Also, a file named "prefs-1.bak" was created at the time my bookmarks were
destroyed.    (I already had a "prefs.bak").  The "prefs-1.bak" file contains a
fragment of an email folder (probably my INBOX or Trash folder), followed by the
start of my old bookmarks file.  I'm attaching prefs-1.bak.

Comment 3

[Steven Augart]

Attachment: prefs-1.bak, which appeared about the time that my prefs were destroyed

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I had shut down and started up the O/S normally; there were no odd circumstances
> associated with this crash.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Also, a file named "prefs-1.bak" was created at the time my bookmarks were
> destroyed.    (I already had a "prefs.bak").  The "prefs-1.bak" file contains a
> fragment of an email folder (probably my INBOX or Trash folder), followed by the
> start of my old bookmarks file.  I'm attaching prefs-1.bak.

File system corruption after crash.

Crash -> Looks like a dupe.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193749 ***