On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:31:34PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > 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.
i saw issues with dialogs as well. the "Save Link to Disk"
dialog was giving me this error. i reinstalled the package, and
that didn't fix it. i ended up building the package from source
(apt-get source -b mozilla-firefox), and that worked.
i'll have to keep an eye on /tmp next time when it happens. i
had seen similar things with mozilla several months ago, and i
fixed it by overwriting the packaged files with the ones from
mozilla's binary distribution on their site.
thanks for the tip.
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