285371 - XML Parsing error on about and other dialogs: undefined entities

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike C. Fletcher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050222 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050222 Firefox/1.0

This is Firefox 1.0.1 built from source on a Gentoo AMD64 box using the ~amd64
ebuild and installed over Firefox 1.0, both using the mozsvg USE flag.  On
selecting Help|About, a Gecko dialog appears with the message (note, this is
copied manually, as copy/paste doesn't work for the gecko dialog):

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
Line Number 19, Column 16:
          title="&aboutDialog.title;" creditsLabel="&copyright;"
aboutLabel="&aboutLink;"
_________________^

Similar errors show up for every dialog-based choice under the tools, help and
bookmarks menu.

Even just typing about: in the address bar gives this error:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:
jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/about.xhtml Line Number 68,
Column 52:<img src="chrome://browser/content/about.png"
alt="&brandShortName;"/></a> ---------------------------------------------------^

I'm wondering if it may be a problem with the theme that was installed with
Firefox 1.0 (Plastikfox Crystal SVG) not being compatible with 1.0.1, but I was
under the impression that Firefox is supposed to disable those themes not known
to work with the current version when doing an upgrade.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge firefox 1.0.1 over firefox 1.0
2. open firefox
3. choose Help|About, or any other dialog-based dialog

Actual Results:  
Gecko dialog about undefined entities.

Expected Results:  
The selected dialog.

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2,
pie-8.7.6) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long
-fPIC -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2,
pie-8.7.6) 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith
-Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy
-Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -fPIC -Wno-deprecated -fshort-wchar
-pthread -pipe

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews --enable-crypto --disable-composer
--enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize=-O1
--enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers --disable-installer --disable-pedantic
--enable-crypto --with-system-jpeg --with-system-png --with-system-zlib
--without-system-nspr --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-ipv6
--disable-xinerama --disable-xprint --enable-freetype2 --enable-freetypetest
--disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-reorder --enable-strip
--enable-strip-libs --enable-xft --enable-oji --enable-mathml --disable-jsd
--disable-xpctools --disable-gnomevfs --enable-svg --enable-svg-renderer-cairo
--with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth,-venkman,-gnomevfs
--prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --loc

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #0)
> This is Firefox 1.0.1 built from source on a Gentoo AMD64 box using the ~amd64
> ebuild and installed over Firefox 1.0,

Says it all. Don't install over. Deinstall properly and install then. Perhaps
you need a new profile too. If this helps, please resolve as invalid.

Comment 2

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Okay, uninstalling and re-installing alone did not help (emerge unmerge firefox,
emerge firefox).  Creating a new profile did eliminate the problem, but I'm not
sure about marking this "invalid", isn't this something that should be fixed?  I
mean you shouldn't have to manually recreate a profile (i.e. copy all the
important data over)... seems a bit involved for a point upgrade... shouldn't
firefox be noticing the out-of-date information in the profile and cleaning it up?

Still, that was what was requested, so I suppose I'll mark it as such.  Thanks
for the pointer.

Comment 3

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Spoke too soon.  Starting firefox with firefox --ProfileManager and then
selecting the new profile (now the only profile) does load in such a way that
the bug is fixed, but just running firefox without --ProfileManager produces the
same symptoms.

Comment 4

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Perhaps this bug should be renamed to something like "XBL parsing errors when
upgrading to 1.0.1 with old profile" or something? Or, mark as invalid and file
a new bug report if you can find some foolproof steps to reproduce.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 310621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Since this worked with a clean profile, I'm going to close it as "works for me". If you're able to reproduce with Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later using a new profile, please reopen with detailed steps.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager