[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = khaled_f...@yahoo.com (khaled-frht) -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
NFSv4 will help: it does notice a no longer held lock, in contrast to NFSv3, that will not notice a no longer held lock (and will hold the lock indefinately). The problem is, that even after removing lock and .parentlock, a couple of .sqlite files will still be locked on an NFSv3 server. A workaround we used is to copy the whole profile, then rename the new profile to go over the old one; then remove the old profile. The new profile will have no locked files on the server, so it will work. -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
I have a larger number of users on the system that brought me to this bug, so restarting the NFS service isn't convenient as a regular solution. I experienced this problem today for the first time in months. Jaunty client, feisty server, nfsv3. Firefox 3.0.13 failed after a power interruption to load bookmarks and other profile characteristics. I simultaneously experienced OpenOffice 3.1.0 (ppa) go into a file recovery loop. The following procedure restored expected behaviour to both firefox and openoffice, so it would seem to me to be filesystem based. I will post back if the situation recurs, but I'm not in a position to 'encourage it' with a live server. The misbehaving instances of firefox and openoffice were closed before tarballing., and required no unusual input after restarting them. history, bookmarks and certs all checked and functioning. tar cvf firefox-openoffice-rc.tar .mozilla/ .openoffice.org/ rm -rf .mozilla/ .openoffice.org/ tar xvf firefox-openoffice-rc.tar -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
RE: [Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
I disagree with the invalid. The cause may be nfs, or the cause may be an nfs client crashing or losing network connection, but then the problem is wth firefox. Currenly I manually remove my profile and lose my history, bookmarks, client certs and everything. There is a problem with firefox if firefox can get rendered useless through such an occasion. It ought to be able to recover - even with data loss. -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
@Sam Liddicott I'd like the opinion of the NFS maintainers before pushing Mozilla for more information. They will usually take responsibility if it's a problem they can fix. I am still subscribed and will watch the progress of this bug. -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
I suffer from the same problem - the only way I've found of returning things to normal is to run sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart on my NFS server and then delete the FF lock files. Obviously this causes an interruption in the availability of NFS, and if you're using an NFS mounted home folder I've found this can lock up your X session on the client - so safest to log out of clients before the restart. -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
Mozilla Upstream said this was a problem with NFS. Please assign to appropriate NFS package if this is not the correct one. ** Also affects: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
** Changed in: firefox Status: New = Invalid -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
Does running firefox using the following command help? firefox-3.0 --safe-mode can you please list all extensions you have. ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
I posted upstream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483676 Starting in safe mode * does not solve the lock and .parentlock problem * does not make the back/forward buttons in the toolbar * clicking the restore bookmarks etc buttons, does not work like the famous goggles - they do nothing! The only addon is the ubuntu addon. -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
** Changed in: firefox Status: Unknown = New -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483676 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 343788] Re: firefox locked or lost settings after crash
if you don't think this bug needs confirmation in Ubuntu, you could go straight to filing this bug upstream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ -- firefox locked or lost settings after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
