403092 - Remember Passord Button Throws Exception

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 400238

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[TGOS]

Just installed the 3.0 beta 1 release candidate via FTP, before I started it for the first time, I wiped all my old profile data. Then I started browsing around with it. When I came accross a site with a password/login, I got the new remember password "dialog" appearing on top (the one that looks like the pop-up blocker thingy). When I hit on Remeber, nothing happened. The error cosole shows this:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "'Couldn't write to file, login not added.' when calling method: [nsILoginManagerStorage::addLogin]"  nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///Applications/User%20Apps/Free/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsLoginManager.js :: anonymous :: line 364"  data: no]

When I hit on Never, this actually worked as expected. After a restart of Fx, I had no issues anymore to remember my passwords. I havev not found any bug describing exactly this issue, so I'm sorry if this is a duplicate.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Were you prompted for a master password when this happened?

How did you "wipe all [your] old profile data"?

I suspect this is the same problem as bug 400238. :(

Comment 2

[TGOS]

No, I have not configured any master password, thus I did not get promped for any.

I wiped my old profile data by moving the whole Firefox folder in 

~/Library/Application Support

to desktop, so nothing should have been left over from my old profile (despite that had no master password either).

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Ok, thanks. That all sounds perfectly sensible, and is basically the conditions the other bug is operating in, so I'm going to dupe this one.

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Oh also:

* Try deleting the signons2.txt and key3.db in your profile folder, and see if you're then able to save passwords. It would be interesting to know if that works.

* If that fails, copy over the signons2.txt and key3.db from your old profile (if you kept a backup), or try using Firefox 2 to create a new profile (and use the signons2.txt / key3.db it creates). FF3 will use/import the FF2 data files, and the problem you ran into is apparently only triggered when initializing a new profile with FF3.