307845 - all extensions and themes disappeared when computer is restarted after power failure;

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 324111

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[naveen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

all extensions and themes disappeared when computer is restarted after  power
failure;  Theme update was running before power failrure.

I think this is due to check disk utility of windows. can't we do anything?

please make it more robust.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.update theme
2.power failure
3.all extensions and themes are gone.

Actual Results:  
all extensions and themes are gone restart after power failure during update
process.

Expected Results:  
extensions and themes should not disappear due to power failure during update
process.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

It is always recommendable to backup your profile first before upgrading or
making other changes. See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq

Comment 2

[Philipp]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

In my experience, a system crash is not necessary for this! I keep having the same problem, but my build is now a few days old. I'll report back as soon as I've had the chance to try it on the newest build.

Comment 3

[Victor Engmark]

Confirmed on FF 1.5 final!

Only difference is that I shut down the computer normally.

This has never happened before; I've used FF since before 1.0.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Uninstall 1.0.7
2. Remove profile data
3. Install 1.5 final
4. Install extensions
5. Restart FF several times (still works)
6. Restart PC
7. Start FF

The contents of extensions.ini are shown below:
[ExtensionDirs]
Extension0=C:\Documents and Settings\vengmark\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g4rlpj7m.default\extensions\{34274bf4-1d97-a289-e984-17e546307e4f}
Extension1=C:\Documents and Settings\vengmark\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g4rlpj7m.default\extensions\undoclosetab@dorando
Extension2=C:\Documents and Settings\vengmark\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g4rlpj7m.default\extensions\{909409b9-2e3b-4682-a5d1-71ca80a76456}
Extension3=C:\Documents and Settings\vengmark\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g4rlpj7m.default\extensions\{5a2b4e34-ce62-42e9-a658-06ba4490adf8}
Extension4=C:\Documents and Settings\vengmark\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g4rlpj7m.default\extensions\filtersetg@updater
Extension5=C:\Documents and Settings\vengmark\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g4rlpj7m.default\extensions\{c36177c0-224a-11da-8cd6-0800200c9a66}
Extension6=C:\Documents and Settings\vengmark\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g4rlpj7m.default\extensions\{463F6CA5-EE3C-4be1-B7E6-7FEE11953374}
[ThemeDirs]
Extension0=C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\extensions\{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}

Notes:
- Running Windows XP
- There's only one profile for this user on this machine
- Other profile contents, such as bookmarks and settings, work just fine

Comment 4

[Victor Engmark]

Oops!

Firefox 1.5 was overwritten by 1.0.4 (by another installation), and that seems to have overwritten the extensions.rdf file. Reinstalling 1.5 fixed the problem!

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

naveen, this sounds like Bug 324111 which has been fixed - actually a workaround - for Firefox 2.0.

Over to EM

Comment 6

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Quite sure this is a dupe of Bug 324111.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324111 ***