618070 - FF Home: Unexpected EOS when authorizing older accounts

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Firefox Home, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Attachment: console output log

With the 12/09 FF Home nightly installed, i am unable to sync data to older accounts using fallback login.   Error thrown is "Unexpected End of String".  However, i FF HOme tells me i'm connected to the app, as i can freely click around... only to see no bookmarks, history, or tabs.

* COnsole output attached

Console snippet:
Thu Dec  9 13:46:29 unknown FirefoxHome[7141] <Warning>: Request finished: <ASIHTTPRequest: 0x460dad0>
Thu Dec  9 13:46:29 unknown FirefoxHome[7141] <Warning>: ### unexpected http error: 404
Thu Dec  9 13:46:29 unknown FirefoxHome[7141] <Warning>: -JSONValue failed. Error trace is: (
    Error Domain=org.brautaset.JSON.ErrorDomain Code=11 UserInfo=0x2a6ec0 "Unexpected end of string"
)

Repro:
1) install FF Home 1.1 12/09 nightly.  Also using iTouch 3.1.3
2) sync to an old account with a custom key. you can use these test accounts:
- user: trunk64sync
- pass: password
- key: batmanbegins

Another test account:
- user: sync144
- pass: wördpass
- key: supermanreturns

3) Connect, and verify no data gets sync'd.  stuck in authorizing mode

Expectd:
- authorizes and syncs data

Actual:
- EOS error

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Attachment: login failure screenshot

hmm, this bug is probably not as bad as it seems.   I ran the same accounts back on 1.0.4, and got a similar console error:


Thu Dec  9 15:32:57 unknown FirefoxHome[7200] <Warning>: unable to delete private key, already deleted
Thu Dec  9 15:32:58 unknown FirefoxHome[7200] <Warning>: ### unexpected http error: 404
Thu Dec  9 15:32:58 unknown FirefoxHome[7200] <Warning>: -JSONValue failed. Error trace is: (
    Error Domain=org.brautaset.JSON.ErrorDomain Code=11 UserInfo=0x193730 "Unexpected end of string"
)
Thu Dec  9 15:32:58 unknown FirefoxHome[7200] <Warning>: ### unexpected http error: 404
Thu Dec  9 15:32:58 unknown FirefoxHome[7200] <Warning>: Unable to retrieve private key
Thu Dec  9 15:32:58 unknown FirefoxHome[7200] <Warning>: Failed to initialize CryptoManager

However, FF home 1.0.4 at least properly fails to login and shows me that i had an issue.  (see screenshot)  FF 1.1 fails with the EOS error, but it still tells me i'm signed in; and showed 0 bookmarks/tab/history.

The bug here should be handling the failed login with corrupted accounts.

Comment 2

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

I enabled some debug logging and I see that both accounts give a 404 on meta/global. I am not sure how that can happen but it really means that the account is broken.

Home should handle this better and not log you in. But it is a very rare situation.

Please retest with a known working account.