910289 - Session state is not restored and Sync not working after updating Firefox

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[u421692]

Attachment: update_ff_sync_logs

Environment:
Device: LG Nexus 4
Build: Nightly 26.0a1 (2013-08-27) to Nightly 26.0a1 (2013-08-28)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Nightly 26.0a1 (2013-08-27)
2. Setup sync on the device and check to make sure sync is complete
3. Update Firefox from about:firefox page

Expected restult:
Firefox is updated, and synced data is preserved

Actual result:
Firefox is updated but synced data is lost, and user can not sync the data anymore, only after removing, then adding the account again.

Note: This may be an issue caused by changes to Session restore, since "requested profile directory missing: null" is displayed in logs.

Comment 1

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Seems potentially related to the logcat output from bug 910049 (https://bug910049.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=796647).

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I suspect bug 886925 as the cause. I am backing it out and requesting a respin of nightly.

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I suspect this might be from the recent guest mode bustage we've had (bug 906030). i.e. we we're basically forcing the creation of a new profile named "guest" (not the normal guest profile), and now some nightly users are stuck on it.

I see a --guest argument in the logcat above.

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Wesley Johnston (:wesj) from comment #3)
> I suspect this might be from the recent guest mode bustage we've had (bug
> 906030). i.e. we we're basically forcing the creation of a new profile named
> "guest" (not the normal guest profile), and now some nightly users are stuck
> on it.
> 
> I see a --guest argument in the logcat above.

That --guest seems to have been caused by bug 886925 too. With the backout, the --guest part is gone.

Marking fixed by backout of bug 886925

Comment 5

[Stefan Fleiter (:sfleiter)]

This was fixed by the latest update for me, too.
No need to reconfigure sync account. 
Thx for the quick fix!

Comment 6

[u421692]

Verified as fixed on:
Device: LG Nexus 4
Build: Nightly 26.0a1 (2013-08-29) to Nightly 26.0a1 (2013-08-30)