331715 - In sidebar history i cannot delete websites with corrupt localstore.rdf

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[rampency101]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

When i click view, sidebar history, i cannot delete sites. I right click and click delete nothing happens.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click view, 
2. sidebar,
3. then history and try deleting history.

Actual Results:  
history did not delete.

Expected Results:  
the website i tryed to delete should have gone away.

I am using Mozzila 1.5, regular theme.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Works For Me. What happens in firefox's safemode?
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

Comment 2

[Jay Knight]

I was experiencing this to... Looking at my error console, I noticed lots of errors about my localstore.rdf file being not well formed.  It contained some strange characters in an entry for foxytunes, I took those out and it worked again.  Check your error/javascript console and see if you see similar errors.

Comment 3

[Mark]

I am also getting this problem.  In the error console I get the following whenever I select delete from the menu.

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsISimpleEnumerator.getNext]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/nsTreeController.js :: nsTreeController_delete :: line 156"  data: no]
Source File: chrome://global/content/nsTreeController.js
Line: 156

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsISimpleEnumerator.getNext]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/nsTreeController.js :: nsTreeController_delete :: line 156"  data: no]

Comment 4

[Mark]

Okay, the workaround is to rename (or delete if you are feeling brave), the localstore.rdf file.   (NB. rename it to something like localstore.rdf.broken)

The history frame will then work as intended.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mark, which version of firefox are you using?

Comment 6

[Mark]

I was using Firefox 1.5.0.9 when I first noticed the problem.

Thinking that perhaps an upgrade would fix it, I upgraded to 2.0.0.1, but the problem still remained, until I figured out that renaming localstore.rdf would fix it.

Comment 7

[stu robinson]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Okay, the workaround is to rename (or delete if you are feeling brave), the
> localstore.rdf file.   (NB. rename it to something like localstore.rdf.broken)
> 
> The history frame will then work as intended.
> I have this problem too. I may be a bit thick, but how do I go about renaming the localstore.rdf file ???.

All help much appreciated.

Comment 8

[[:Aleksej]]

Same or similar newer bugs: bug 350918, bug 370900.

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

not going to take further fixes on 2.x, feel free to reopen if you can reproduce on 3.x or current trunk