861792 - Permanent sync error "Client sent a bad request" after removing ~20k+ history entries

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 749315

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

(Sorry if that's the wrong component I was a little confused about where to file.)

I felt like cleaning up my history a little bit today and removed upwards of 20k history entries by searching for "example.com" in the "Show All History" dialog, selecting and removing all of them.

This took a little while and in the meantime a couple of sync errors were popping up which I thought was maybe due to Firefox freezing most of the time while synchronously removing all history entries.

Now that I've done this in parallel on two machines both of them can't sync anymore. They're trying periodically but all I get is sync errors:

Sync.Engine.History	DEBUG	Uploading records failed: <h2>Client sent a bad request.</h2>

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

This is probably Bug 569295. Is an error 413 appearing in the log? (And can you include a log snippet?)

Comment 2

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Attachment: error log

Attaching the log for completeness but I don't see the error anymore :( I mean, hooray it works but I have no clue what it was.

Comment 3

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Attachment: error log

Still happening. Attaching latest error log.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

That helps. Thanks, Tim!