[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#571596: Iceweasel do not start after removal of xul-ext-torbutton

[Jérémy Bobbio]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:47:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > The xul-ext-torbutton package in Debian displays a quite annoying
> > behaviour. It can be reproduced by the following steps:
> > 
> >  1. Install Torbutton system-wide by installing xul-ext-torbutton.
> >  2. Start Iceweasel for any existing profile or create a new one.
> >  3. Quit Iceweasel.
> >  4. Remove Torbutton by removing xul-ext-torbutton.
> >  5. Trying to start any profile that has been opened while Torbutton was
> >     installed, now results in Iceweasel silently failing to start.
> > 
> > As pointed by Ruud van Melick in #571596, this can be worked around by
> > manually disabling the extension through the Add-ons panel before
> > removing the package. After a succesful start using "-safe-mode", next
> > start is fine as well. [...]
> 
> Does one need to actually use torbutton to trigger the problem or
> installing/uninstalling is enough?

Starting Iceweasel with an existing profile or creating a new one while
xul-ext-torbutton is installed is enough. If a profile has not been
started between installation/uninstallation, it is not affected.

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
jeremy.bobbio at irq7.fr               : :   :             lunar at debian.org
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