57401 - crash on startup when localstore.rdf is corrupt

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 57246

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect, P1)

Description

[Stephan Niemz]

You must just have received a few talkback reports from me because Mozilla
crashed directly on startup. This happened on WinNT with build 2000101920 and
other builds which are a few days old.

    I had to move away the file ...\Mozilla\Users50\default\localstore.rdf.
After that, the window sizes and positions were back to the default, but Mozilla
works again. I'm going to attach the corrupt localstore.rdf.

    I've seen this on Linux, too, a few days ago. When I'm back to my Linux
machine, I will give you more info on that.

    Can somebody please help me find the right component? I chose "browser
general" because I don't know it better.

Comment 1

[Stephan Niemz]

Attachment: corrupt localstore.rdf

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

cc: kairo, who opened such a bug before.

Comment 3

[Dave]

I saw this too the other day (Linux trunk build from a couple days ago). I also
submitted a couple talkbacks.
It was complaining about a line in my localstore.rdf file which was "malformed"
or somesuch. The offending line was from my urlbar history: a really long URL
with some type of cgi content (similar to quite a few of the ones in the
attached file).Removing this line from the file fixed the problem.
Unfortunately, I can't find the URL to compare with the ones in the attached
file... is there a talkback history somewhere I can pull it from?

Comment 4

[Stephan Niemz]

    Since I seem to be not the only one who has seen this, could somebody please
confirm this bug, i.e. change the status to new? Thanks. And I still don't know
the right component - I'm trying "Preferences: backend" now.

    Unfortunately I don't have the corrupt localstore.rdf any more which caused
the crash on Linux. But it was like in Dave's comment - removing a few lines
prevented the crash.

Comment 5

[buster]

confirming.  staring with waterson, since it's a corrupt rdf file that seems to
be the problem.  Maybe we have 2 problems here?
1) the rdf file is getting corrupted.
2) once an rdf file is corrupt, we don't recover well.

Comment 6

[Chris Waterson]

This is a dup of bug 57246.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57246 ***

Comment 7

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified

Comment 8

[benc]

What part of the attached RDF is corrupt?

Comment 9

[benc]

I think I found it:
<RDF:li>http://optionsscheine1.onvista.de/cgi-bin/os-vergleich.mpl?Basiswert=Euro/US-Dollar&Typ=Call</RDF:li>