276038 - plugin service not responding

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Stan]

cannot view certain images, needs plugins, open service and no response...

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

please provide a URL, else this is invalid.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 276066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 276084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This should be fixed now.  Thanks to philor on #bmo for tracking down the
problem...  the pfs service was returning errors that Firefox didn't know how to
deal with.  Problem turned out to be a logfile which the webserver didn't have
access to write to.  Permissions were fixed on the logfile, and it now works.  I
have no clue why or how the permissions would have gotten changed or why the
service isn't supressing errors that will choke the client.  I'll leave this bug
open for the application developers to figure that out.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The PHP really needs to 1) set an error_level that would stop any error messages
from getting into the output, 2) check the result of trying to open the
request.log, 3) rotate the log before it gets to more than 2GB, and the Firefox
half really should survive getting text/html with PHP error messages or any
random thing that isn't RDF a little more gracefully.

Doron: do you need me to file separate bugs on any or all of those things?
Before I pinged justdave to fix it, it was returning: "Warning:
fopen(/opt/update/plugins/requests.log): failed to open stream: Permission
denied in /opt/update/plugins/PluginFinderService.php on line 373" followed by a
couple of invalid file handle errors, then a "can't add headers" error, as
text/html, which left the pfs dialog up hung and waiting for something it
understood.

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Wups, the Firefox part of it is probably just bug 273978 and the null check; I
didn't realize I was in a profile without javascript.options.showInConsole set,
so I didn't get the error.

Comment 7

[Stan]

now installing plugins not responding

Comment 8

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 241404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 311513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Die, ancient thing, die!