301456 - when password prompt should open, XML error in commonDialog.xul, removing XUL.mfasl helps

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Martin von Gagern]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.1 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0.6

I usually have my passwords stored encrypted, e.g. the Password for this 
bugzilla. Since upgrading to 1.0.6, whenever I try to login and usually the 
prompt to enter my master password should appear, I get an error message 
instead. Closing this message window reopens this very same window, only 
centered. So I'm stuck in an endless loop and just can try to press Alt+F4 
faster than those windows pop up. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox-1.0.6  
2. Goto bugzilla.mozilla.org 
3. Log in 
  
Actual Results:  
XML Parsing Error: not well formed  
Location: chrome://global/content/commonDialog.xul  
Line Number 1, Colum 2  
(some red garbage, see attached screenshot)  

Expected Results:  
Prompt to enter master password,  and form filled out afterwards. 

This is a Gentoo build from source.

Comment 1

[Martin von Gagern]

Attachment: Gecko error message as quoted above

Comment 2

[Martin von Gagern]

I had a look at the chrome jar files. 
 
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/chrome/toolkit.jar contains 
content/global/commonDialog.xul which contains the line 
<!DOCTYPE dialog SYSTEM "chrome://global/locale/commonDialog.dtd"> 
 
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/chrome/en-US.jar contains 
locale/global/commonDialog.dtd. Should global and locale be the otherway round 
somewhere here? 

Comment 3

[Martin von Gagern]

Removing the XUL.mfasl from my profile directory did solve the problem.
So I guess this should either become a dup of domething or other or a dependency
of bug 134576.
As this seems to be not an issue of 1.0.6 but of the upgrade itself, this was an
upgrade from 1.0.5 if I remember correctly.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Martin, have you seen this problem in recent builds?

Comment 5

[Martin von Gagern]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Martin, have you seen this problem in recent builds?

No, I haven't seen this one again during any other update.
Would WORKSFORME be the correct resolution in this case?

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Yeah, I think we can make this one WORKSFORME.
There have been several bugs fixed since you reported the bug, the latest
one being bug 341595. Problems due to corrupt XUL.mfasl should not happen
anymore hopefully. File a new bug if you see it again, thanks.

-> WORKSFORME (per comment 5)