668895 - Sync encountered an error while syncing when FIPS is enabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 443386

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Christian Kujau]

While trying to sync, Firefox prints:

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Sync encountered an error while syncing: Unknown error. Sync will automatically retry this action
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The error console has, for every sync attempt:

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Error: [Exception... "null"  nsresult: "0x805a1ff6 (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://services-sync/resource.js :: Channel_onStopRequest :: line 563"  data: no]
Source File: resource://services-sync/resource.js  Line: 563
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Although I have services.sync.log.appender.debugLog.enabled=true, "about:sync-log" or "about:sync-log.1" says "File not found", although both are listed in "about:about". There are other bugreports with this error (#637258, #651957, #664234, #634993, #640366), but only #599767 mentions a relationship to the FIPS module:

> Make sure password store is accessible by sync 
> (FIPS 140 blocks sync (sync bug)

However, the comment is from 2011-01-14, the report has been closed. As soon as I disable the FIPS-140 module, "Sync" is working again.

Comment 1

[Christian Kujau]

FWIW, this has also been mentioned in the addon review section in March 2011:

> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-sync/reviews/?page=6
> it's sad how they tout security, but it simply does not work with FIPS-140
> Support on existing accounts. Otherwise works good.

Comment 2

[u279076]

This sounds more like a bug in Sync than it is a bug in the Firefox FIPS implementation. Moving to appropriate component.

Comment 3

[Christian Kujau]

This may well be, thanks for moving. I wonder why nobody else is complaining about this. Is nobody using FIPS && Sync?

Comment 4

[Christian Kujau]

Gaaah, found it: #443386, did not find it before, sorry :(