624839 - Awesomebar not working, corrupt places DB

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Places, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

In the past day or two my awesomebar stopped working on my Windows dev box. It doesn't even attempt to search history, even though the places organizer shows history entries.

Error console has: Error: Places AutoComplete: An async statement encountered an error: 11, 'database disk image is malformed'
Source File: resource://gre/components/nsPlacesAutoComplete.js
Line: 597

I've got a .zip of my profile contents if you'd like to look at it.

Seems the two problems here are:

1) What happened to corrupt the DB?

2) Why isn't it able to recover (ie, backup DB, purge, and start anew)?

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

it's possible it's a soft-corruption, so that it can be opened but it is reported as corrupt for some operation. In such a case bug 609286 (fixed in places) would replace it when maintenance runs but since it's not hard corruption it cannot be detected on db opening.

I don't have a answer for question 1... btw, can you run a "pragma integrity_check" on it please?

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think for these generic disk corruption bugs we don't have a viable solution, we plan to backup history though, so that making a new db will be pretty much transparent (bug 431274) when a corruption is detected (bug 609286).

Dolske did you try to check corruption as I pointed at in comment 1?
I think there is low value in keeping the bug open as it is.

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Sigh. I don't think I have this DB around any more, so closing as incomplete.