406494 - Download Manager stuck scanning for viruses

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 401582

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Jason Gurley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1

The download manager is stuck scanning for viruses on a file.  This file in particular no longer exists (it didn't have a virus, I just accidentally downloaded it and didn't need it, so I deleted it).  There is no option to clear or cancel the scan.  I have tried replacing the file, no luck, it still is in perpetual scanning mode.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
I don't know how it happened in the first place.
Actual Results:  
It should go away.

Expected Results:  
It is still there.

Comment 1

[Jason Gurley]

There SHOULD be a way to cancel the scan when things like this happen.  Instead, the only right-click option is "Copy Source Location".  So I'm stuck with this "scanning for viruses" on index.php in the download manager and no way to get rid of it.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

It's not actually scanning - the database just didn't get updated...

We will never offer the option to cancel a scan since we can't actually cancel it anyway...

Comment 3

[Jason Gurley]

Is there any way to remove it from the list?  I'm getting tired of looking at it...

Comment 4

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

I just got the same problem. Steps to reproduce:
1. Download a file
2. At the moment scanning happens, kill/crash your firefox

Expected results: the file is marked as complete at next startup

Actual results: the file remains in "scanned" state forever. There is no way for mortals to do something about it. The thing animates until people scream.

Comment 5

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

Attachment: downloads.sqlite with such stuck file.

You might need to download something or else list remains empty, somehow.

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup