41253 - Can't use lxr with mozilla: bad cache entry

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect, P3)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

With the 2000060108 mozilla build, I can't use lxr.  If I go directly to the
url, it doesn't load, and I see on stdout:

Error loading URL http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/

If I go to http://lxr.mozilla.org first, it loads fine, but when I click on
seamonkey, it still doesn't load.

This page loads fine with 4.7, and this isn't sporadic (so, not likely a network
problem with mozilla.org) -- I've tried this several times throughout the day
and it always works in 4.7 and fails in mozilla.

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

lxr is one of our main tools, so this should be dogfood (I keep having to start
up 4.7 to do lxr queries).

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

I also see the error loading URL message in 60108 in winME and the URL failed to 
load the first time, but after closing and reopening the browser, it seems to 
work now (though the error message still appears in the console).

Comment 3

[leger]

Putting on [dogfood+] radar.

Comment 4

[Andreas Otte]

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ works fine for me with the current linux build
from 06-02-2000, however http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey (without the slash)
does not work and reports an error loading the URL.

Comment 5

[Akkana Peck]

Doesn't work for me either with or without the slash, on yesterday's optimized
or today's debug build.

Comment 6

[Andreas Otte]

It even works for me without the slash now (debug build), I see the error only
when the page is already loaded, when it is not, it redirects just fine to
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ and loads the page. Strange ...

Comment 7

[Akkana Peck]

Turns out this is a cache problem.  I had the line:
user_pref("browser.cache.directory", "/tmp/mozcache");
in my prefs.  I deleted the directory /tmp/mozcache, and deleted that line from
my prefs, and now I can load the url both with and without the slash.

I should have thought to save the old cache in case it might be useful for
debugging, but I didn't.  Sorry.

Does shift-reload work yet to "really reload", bypassing the cache? Otherwise
users might get stuck in a state where they may never again be able to access
their favorite page.

Comment 8

[neeti]

I can reproduce the problem on windows too. Reassigning to myself.

Neeti

Comment 9

[neeti]

With today's linux build 06/06/2000, both http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey and 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey load fine. But my console window shows the 
error message "Error loading URL http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey" even though 
the page has loaded. 

Neeti

Comment 10

[neeti]

I am marking this bug WORKSFORME for now, since we are unable to reproduce the 
problem and have lost the corrupted cache.
Neeti

Comment 11

[Akkana Peck]

See also the recent comments in bug 39812, which may be related.

Comment 12

[Jan Carpenter]

works for me too.
Verified
2000-07-20-08 : Linux