673672 - SM upgrade 2.0.14 to 2.2 fails to migrate cookies

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Firefox/5.0 SeaMonkey/2.2
Build ID: 20110706120824

Steps to reproduce:

Runned the SM 2.2 installer on a computer with 2.0.14 running, installed in to a different folder.


Actual results:

Everything looked fine, but visiting any web site that uses my cookies to recognize me, I have to identifiy myself again.

It happened on 2 different machines


Expected results:

Cookie based authentication should continue to work

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

So when you open the Data Manager (Tools Menu) and select "Cookies only" the list is blank? All other data like bookmarks and history are fine?

Comment 2

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

The cookies I have mostly match the sites I visited these last few days. The other ones are probably from Ad networks.

My old bookmarks are still there, while I don't use them anymore. 
My 6 months of history are there also.

The fact is that I used to run Firefox Sync with passwords only, between 2 instances of SeaMonkey and 2 of Firefox, and I have chosen recently to also sync preferences (does this include cookies ?)
Could be a side effect of this change ?

Comment 3

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

Just did the upgrade on my wife's computer, she isn't using Sync and all cookies are gone, while Bookmarks and History is there.
They didn't get migrated ?

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

SeaMonkey 2.2 should use the same profile as SeaMonkey 2.0.x. We'll need to investigate what happened there.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

What happened is that SeaMonkey 2.0 uses bookmarks.html while SeaMonkey 2.1+ switched to Places (places.sqlite) for bookmarks storage. So the question is why bookmarks did not auto import when the profile was opened by SM 2.2.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

As a side note, is this (profile update) something that could have an (automated) test for ? (assuming there is none yet.)
(Or do test harnesses not support that ?)

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #5)

Hum, was that comment meant for bug 673474 rather ?

Comment 8

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #5)
> What happened is that SeaMonkey 2.0 uses bookmarks.html while SeaMonkey 2.1+
> switched to Places (places.sqlite) for bookmarks storage. So the question is
> why bookmarks did not auto import when the profile was opened by SM 2.2.

One possibility is the known fact that the migration only happens the first time. So if you upgrade 2.0 to 2.1, are not satisfied, and go back to 2.0, any later changes to your bookmarks will be lost if you later upgrade again to 2.1 or later.

Comment 9

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Ancient version. Cookies and permissions db code changed a number of times since then and directly upgrading from 2.0.14 is no longer supported. Please reopen if you experience this problem with a current SeaMonkey version and a valid upgrade path.