Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

From: John M Flinchbaugh (glynis_at_butterfly.hjsoft.com)
Date: 03/22/04

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    Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:16:27 -0500
To: Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>

    On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:31:34PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
    > > Hi list, ever since I upgraded to mozilla-firefox 0.8-5, I cant
    bookmark any
    > > page. This is totally reproducible on my box, everytime I click
    "Bookmark this
    > > page" on any random page, a warning dialog pops up saying:
    > > XML Parsing Error: not well formed
    > > Location: chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/addBookmark2.xul
    > > Line Number 1, Column 1:
    >
    > Check out $TMPDIR/content/browser/bookmarks/addBookmark2.xul
    >
    > As the error message indicates, the XML file is not properly formatted
    > because for some reason it starts with a '*'. The original file is
    > located in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/chrome/browser.jar so you can
    > extract the file from there (it's a zip archive) and verify the
    contents
    > (should start with "<?xml version="1.0"?>" ...)
    >
    > I'm guessing the file isn't getting extracted properly, probably due
    to
    > the device on which $TMPDIR is located being out of space. You could
    > also try clearing $TMPDIR and rerunning firefox.

    i saw issues with dialogs as well. the "Save Link to Disk"
    dialog was giving me this error. i reinstalled the package, and
    that didn't fix it. i ended up building the package from source
    (apt-get source -b mozilla-firefox), and that worked.

    i'll have to keep an eye on /tmp next time when it happens. i
    had seen similar things with mozilla several months ago, and i
    fixed it by overwriting the packaged files with the ones from
    mozilla's binary distribution on their site.

    thanks for the tip. 

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