tag 790498 unreproducible severity 790498 important thanks On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:02PM +0300, Török Edwin wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 38.0.1-5 > Severity: grave > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have upgraded Iceweasel from jessie (31.7.0esr-1~deb8u1) to testing and > suddenly none of my saved passwords worked, and the password manager doesn't > even show all the websites > that have stored passwords in the jessie version. > > I am still able to login to my websites if I manually type in the correct > password (and tell iceweasel to save the updated passwords), > however using the prefilled passwords doesn't work, and looking up the > passwords in the password manager and pressing show password > reveals the wrong password. > > When I press show passwords most passwords look like base64 (a-zA-Z0-9+/) > whereas the original passwords had a combination of alphanumeric and symbols. > > If I downgrade to the version in jessie then the passwords work correctly > again > (including the ones overwritten by the testing version of iceweasel). > > I tried to create a new account just for the purpose of testing this bug, but > the site and associated password doesn't show up at all when upgrading > iceweasel (and is visible again when downgrading), > haven't figured out so far what makes a site/user/password "survive" the > upgrade. > > I've marked the bug as 'causes data loss', because initially that is what I > thought happened when none of the passwords worked, and I'm still not sure how > safe the data in the password manager is > across upgrades/downgrades (so far downgrading has restored all passwords, but > I can't be sure it'll stay that way).
Your comment in upstream bug says that forcing a new upgrade of the signons store worked, so it's really not clear what went wrong the first time. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org