Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark

From: Brian Nelson (pyro_at_debian.org)
Date: 03/22/04

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:38:51 -0800

    John M Flinchbaugh <glynis@butterfly.hjsoft.com> writes:

    > 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'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.

    Actually, I think I was full of crap when I was talking about $TMPDIR.
    I think the stuff in there I saw was stuff I had manually extracted
    there.

    It will still help to keep an eye on the .jar files in
    /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/chrome though. 

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