765210 - Error: Search service falling back to synchronous initialization in nsSearchService.js

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Scoobidiver (away)]

When I start Nightly with a new profile, I get the following error in the Error Console:
"Error: Search service falling back to synchronous initialization at SRCH_SVC__ensureInitialized@resource:///components/nsSearchService.js:2498
@resource:///components/nsSearchService.js:3462
AHU_loadDefaultSearchEngine@resource:///components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js:848
@resource:///components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js:577
dch_handle@resource:///components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js:827

Source File: resource:///components/nsSearchService.js
Line: 2499"

Aurora is unaffected so it's a recent regression.

Comment 1

[Loic]

It's a regression indeed.

Mozregression range:

m-c
good=2012-06-08
bad=2012-06-09
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=5891cc95eac7&tochange=95d1bb200f4e

m-i
good=2012-06-07
bad=2012-06-08
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=30fc3d3e10d3&tochange=80e0fe778213

Suspected bug:
David Rajchenbach-Teller — Bug 722332: add an asynchronous initialization API to nsIBrowserSearchService, with a fallback to synchronous initialization for backwards compatibility, r=gavin

Comment 2

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

It's not a bug yet :)
It is just a symptom of being between landing of bug 722332 and landing of bug 760035.

This error message marks the fact that we are using a slow path initialization instead of the new fast path initialization. This will be a performance error once bug 760035 lands.

Comment 3

[Tomas]

Bug 760035 landed, so this time it is bug.

Comment 4

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

Tomas, normally, this should print a stack. Do you have a copy of that stack, by any chance?

Comment 5

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Is it a dupe of bug 785487?

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

If it's about the case where you use the profile manager specifically, probably. If it's about the error message in general, no.

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

AboutHomeUtils was removed in bug 749477 - I filed bug 988017 on fixing it's replacement's use of the search service.