[Bug 277705] [NEW] Firefox 3.03 Corrupted

[Antonio Bequer]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox 3.03 (3.03+build1+nobinonly+0ubuntu0.8.04.1) on Ubuntu 8.04 became corrupted.  This included
- no access to my previous bookmarks,
- no ability to restore bookmarks (bookmark restore),
- no ability to load bookmarks from .html file,
- would not load homepages with home button even though they were still in Edit>Preferences>Main
- pages would load but the spinning indicator on the tab would keep spinning, and
- forward and back were not working.

I tried to archive ~/.mozilla but was unable to do so.  The problem was
that ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxx.default/sessionstore.js had been chown'ed to
root.

Possible cause: I ran tilp2 (release 1.01-0ubuntu2) using "sudo tilp"
and then accessed tilp's Help > Help Contents which opened a Firefox
window.

Solution: I closed Firefox and from the terminal, I did "mv .mozilla
.mozilla.bak" and then restarted Firefox.  All is now well.  I was able
to restore my bookmarks from the json file in .mozilla.bak without
problem and all functions are now normal.

AB

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct  3 06:52:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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