302170 - nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception so finalize window can close

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Carsten Ott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: firefox1.0.6-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.bz2  &  ../linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.0.6.tar.gz

*** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching exception
so finalize window can close
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource

after ~/.mozilla is greated, i get only the "*** loading the..." message


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
starting firefox, no special steps



Problem with solaris and linux builds (under solaris 9 and redhat 9)

IMPORTANT: This is no duplicate of the bugs 246650, 259978, 272324, 294049

REASON:
- New behaviour since 1.0.6, no problem with e.g. 1.0.4. No problems installing
mozilla suite since the 0.9-versions until this new firefox.
- I have full filesystem access at installing time (admin acl-rights), 
changing unix-rights (chmod) helps nothing. Tried all known hints descriped in
some readmes or in the other bug-reports.

SPECIALS:
- I'm installing into a AFS filesystem, at installing time i use only one
RW-volume, the readonly-volumes would be added later after the installation is
working full. The user-homes are also in AFS. Only ACL-rights are relevant.

Comment 1

[Carsten Ott]

additional information:

tried also patch for "nsExtensionManager.js" from ralf utermann
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272324)

installation of mozilla-1.7.10 builds for solaris and linux work without any
problems.

Comment 2

[Carsten Ott]

german build is working..
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.6/linux-i686/de-DE/firefox-1.0.6.tar.gz

now make some further tests...

Comment 3

[Carsten Ott]

i found the problem!

i copied our old firefox.js config to the new installation without changing
app.version and app.build_id keys! after changing this, i get only a two-line
message and firefox starts normal.

pref("app.version", "1.0.6"); 
pref("app.build_id", "2005072021");

firefox.js diff 1.0.4<->1.0.6:
-----------
->>>
57c57
< "1.0.6"
---
> "1.0.4"
61c61
< "2005072021"
---
> "2005051217"
128c128
< "1.0.6"
---
> "1.0.4"
-------------

the mozilla suite don't have this keys in the config. when installing mozilla i
make always a diff to the original config-files to test for changes before using
our custom config. with firefox i must have forgotten it and didn't thought
about that difference.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Resolving as WORKSFORME per reporter's comment.