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Re: mozilla-firefox 0.8-5 cant add bookmark



On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:31:34PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Isaac Claymore <clay@exavio.com.cn> writes:
> 
> > 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.

Everything goes fine after a reboot. The /tmp has quite enough space, I guess
something went wrong when I reinstalled 0.8-3 after upgrading to 0.8-4 failed
with a segmentation fault, and waited till 0.8-5 went out and upgraded again.

> 
> [...]
> > Please kindly CC me, I'm not on list.
> 
> Your Mail-Followup-To header says otherwise.
> 

Fixed, thanks for noticing that~~

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