989156 - recently closed tabs greyed out, error in SessionStore.jsm

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Misha Aizatulin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 2014031500

Steps to reproduce:

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Actual results:

All of "tabs from other devices", "restore previous session", "Recently closed tabs", "Recenty closed windows" are greyed out. Firefox is not restoring previous session state on startup. All sessionstore values are defaults. When starting I get these errors:

> firefox 
************************************************************
* Call to xpconnect wrapped JSObject produced this error:  *
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIPrefBranch.getComplexValue]"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "JS frame :: resource://app/components/nsBrowserGlue.js :: BG__migrateUI :: line 1421"  data: no]
************************************************************
JavaScript error: resource:///modules/sessionstore/SessionStore.jsm, line 1594: NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE: Window is not tracked
JavaScript error: resource:///modules/sessionstore/SessionStore.jsm, line 1594: NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE: Window is not tracked

This started happening with FF27, version 26 is fine.

Comment 1

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Could you please try the following :

1) try this with a clean profile: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2) running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 2

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Misha, is this still happening for you? Does Firefox 29 work for fine for you?

Comment 3

[Misha Aizatulin]

With firefox 29 creating a new profile and copying over sessionstore.js from the old profile helped. When trying to simply reuse the old profile I was getting:

WARNING: A completion condition encountered an error while we were spinning the event loop. Condition: Telemetry: shutting down Phase: profile-before-change2
WARNING: Unix error 17 during operation writeAtomic (File exists)

Comment 4

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Thanks for reporting back, Misha! Let's just call it "WFM" then. Please re-open or a file a new issue if you see it again.