846839 - Crash provider failing if profile directory on UNC-formatted path: Module Path cannot handle UNC-formatted paths yet: \\foo\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\pending

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 846848

(Firefox Health Report Graveyard :: Client: Desktop, defect, P4)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

FHR errors in the payload have revealed a failure of the crashes provider if the profile directory is on a network share:

Error: Module Path cannot handle UNC-formatted paths yet:
\\foo\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash
Reports\pending

Possible OS.File limitation?

Can anyone weigh in on the importance of obtaining this data? Do we have any kind of idea how many Firefox users have their profile on a network share? That seems like something that would be interesting for FHR to collect. I imagine profile on a network share would slow down Firefox!

Comment 1

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

Definitely a limitation of OS.File: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/toolkit/components/osfile/ospath_win_back.jsm#l256

Opening bug 846848 for UNC-formatted paths. I'll let you tell me how urgent this is for you.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

ASAP, please, Yoric!

P4 here just means "less important than FHR on Android".

Comment 3

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

I have a prototype for bug 846848. Is there a way you could contribute a test?

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I'm going to assert this is fixed with bug 846848.