499090 - Firefox writes files in profile till disk is full

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 493374

(Toolkit :: Places, defect)

Description

[Timo Witte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.31 Safari/530.5
Build Identifier: 3.5 Beta 4

When i start firefox it behaves extremly unresponsive and writes a lot of files to my profile in.
C:\Users\Spacy\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\7f5f77qo.default

places.sqlite.corrupt
places.sqlite-1.corrupt
places.sqlite-2.corrupt
places.sqlite-3.corrupt
places.sqlite-4.corrupt
places.sqlite-5.corrupt
.
.
.
places.sqlite-118.corrupt

the files are all writen in just 1 start of firefox. not 1 file per start! I think this behaviour is extremly bad, because it only stops / hangs when my disk is full.. It should give up after one try create a new file and inform the user or try to repair the file just once!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
Actual Results:  
System is unresponsive and disk is full after ~2 min in my case.

Expected Results:  
It should give up after one try create a new file and inform the user or try to repair the file just once!

If you need it can upload my places.sqlite file but it´s 200 MB in size (have webserver)

Comment 1

[Chris Moore]

I installed firefox 3.5 beta 4 a while ago and had it update itself successfully a few days back.

Then yesterday it tried to update again and quickly failed.  Attempting to run firefox after that gave a 'bus error'.  It appears the disk was full when the update ran, presumably causing the problem.

Checking the disk, it's full of places.sqlite-<nn>.corrupt files, all identical to my places.sqlite file.

I removed the filefox 3.5 beta install and re-extracted the 3.5 beta 4 tarball I had originally downloaded.  While firefox is running, it creates a new places.sqlite-<nn>.corrupt file every 15 seconds until the disk is full.  While this is happened my bookmarks and history are unavailable.

Switching back to firefox 3.0 seems to fix the problem.  My bookmarks and history are available again.

I guess I shouldn't be using the same profile between the two versions - is that right?

Comment 2

[Timo Witte]

i undestand that i am posting my own personal history and bookmarks here but i have uploaded the corrupt file:

http://files.spacefish.biz/places.sqlite

it´s 208 MB in size so be patient till it´s uploaded completely 25 minutes remaining *g*

Comment 3

[Chris Moore]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite tells me:

Note: Starting in Firefox 3.5, if you open Firefox and the Places database is locked you will see the message, The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of Firefox's files is in use by another application. Some security software can cause this problem

but I didn't see that message at all.

Comment 4

[Timo Witte]

@#3 this is not the problem right here, because the file isn´t locked it´s marked corrupt by firefox, so it´s possible to open it, otherwise firefox would´nt have opened it, because the other application set a write/read lock on system basis.

Comment 5

[Timo Witte]

upload of file is complete

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

you problem is that you was on 3.5b99 and you installed 3.5b4. since the two places databases are unfortunatly not compatible, it started generating all of those files.
Updating to latest RC and deleting all .corrupt files should solve the problem.

Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

ps: you can remove your places.sqlite since we don't need it to debug this issue.

Also, do you use Google Toolbar by chance?

Comment 9

[Timo Witte]

actually marco bonardo´s solution doesn´t help. It creates the files again!

Comment 10

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

notice you must use Help/Check for Updates and upgrade there

Comment 11

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

see also this post on mozillazine: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1304125&start=0

Comment 12

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Stop asking blocking and don't change bug resolution please.

Comment 13

[Timo Witte]

fixed in http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/9a49d7ecebe2

Comment 14

[Chris Moore]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Updating to latest RC and deleting all .corrupt files should solve the problem.

Is there any way to keep my history?

I went back to using firefox 3.0 with the same profile, and it's all present and correct there, so the data hasn't been lost.