Bug#486136: epiphany-browser: passwords lost !

[Xavier Bestel]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 11:54 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 28 juillet 2008 à 18:23 +0200, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
> > Just in case it helps:
> > 
> > [xav at bip:~]$ gdb --args epiphany-browser --g-fatal-warnings
> > GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> > Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> > and "show warranty" for details.
> > This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
> > (gdb) r
> > Starting program: /usr/bin/epiphany-browser --g-fatal-warnings
> > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> > [New Thread 0xb6b02ab0 (LWP 22863)]
> > [New Thread 0xb5ab5b90 (LWP 22867)]
> > 
> > ** WARNING **: failed to read user preferences, error: 80004005
> > aborting...
> 
> Could you send your ~/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/prefs.js file,
> please?
> 
> Does it improve anything if you move this file away?

Nope, moving the file away does nothing.
Here is the file content:

# Mozilla User Preferences

/* Do not edit this file.
 *
 * If you make changes to this file while the browser is running,
 * the changes will be overwritten when the browser exits.
 *
 * To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
 * For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
 */

user_pref("browser.anchor_color", "#0000FF");
user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 4096);
user_pref("browser.display.background_color", "#f5f5f5");
user_pref("browser.display.enable_marquee", false);
user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/home/xav");
user_pref("browser.related.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.visited_color", "#FF0000");
user_pref("font.minimum-size", 5);
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 6);
user_pref("font.name.cursive", "Lucida Handwriting");
user_pref("font.name.cursive.x-western", "Lucida Handwriting");
user_pref("font.name.fantasy", "Comic Sans MS");
user_pref("font.name.fantasy.x-western", "Comic Sans MS");
user_pref("font.name.monospace", "Andale Mono");
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "Andale Mono");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif", "Tahoma");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "Arial");
user_pref("font.name.serif", "Trebuchet MS");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "Trebuchet MS");
user_pref("font.size.variable", 12);
user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 12);
user_pref("general.useragent.vendor", "Epiphany");
user_pref("general.useragent.vendorSub", "1.0.8");
user_pref("helpers.global_mailcap_file", "");
user_pref("helpers.global_mime_types_file", "");
user_pref("helpers.private_mailcap_file", "");
user_pref("helpers.private_mime_types_file", "");
user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "fr-fr,fr,en");
user_pref("intl.charset.default", "ISO-8859-15");
user_pref("intl.charset.detector", "");
user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=");
user_pref("keyword.enabled", true);
user_pref("mousewheel.withaltkey.sysnumlines", true);
user_pref("mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action", 1);
user_pref("mousewheel.withcontrolkey.sysnumlines", false);
user_pref("mousewheel.withshiftkey.sysnumlines", true);
user_pref("mozilla.widget.raise-on-setfocus", false);
user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 0);
user_pref("network.dir.generate_html", true);
user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", 8080);
user_pref("network.proxy.no_proxies_on", "localhost, 127.0.0.0/8");
user_pref("plugin.display_plugin_downloader_dialog", false);
user_pref("plugin.soname.list", "libXt.so:libXext.so");
user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_entering_weak", false);
user_pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_viewing_mixed", false);
user_pref("signon.SignonFileName", "36074711.s");
user_pref("view_source.wrap_long_lines", true);
user_pref("wallet.caveat", true);
user_pref("xpinstall.enabled", false);


PS: this is from my savedir, I have since started afresh a new config
dir and hand-copied my old signons3.txt and *.s file. It nearly worked
ok.

Thanks,
	Xav