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bug #50960: Icecat's sync parameters load indefinitely

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 06 May 2017 05:59:44 PM UTC
Votes: 26
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  None
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Originator Name:  stemy Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Open
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Tue 13 Oct 2020 09:24:21 PM UTC, comment #10: 

"still" is not quite accurate - this is a recurring problem over the years - as you can see in comment #7, it was working last year (v60.3.0 IIRC); but this BR was not closed at that time, because the problem still existed with icecat-mobile - this is more like it happened "again"

also, you can see from comment #3, that the original problem reported, was not actually a bug in icecat, but was caused by libreJS

that being "said", i think that the gnuzilla dev team is not watching this bug tracker; but prefers the mailing lists and the private GNU BTS system - based on the CC list of my email
notification, it looks like none of the active gnuzilla devs got notification of your comment

however, there are two recent threads about this issue on the mailing lists:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnuzilla-dev/2020-01/msg00013.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2019-11/msg00032.html

the first one (to gnuzilla-dev) gives the steps needed to enable sync - it requires a re-build - the second one (to bug-gnuzilla), i believe is linked to a BTS ticket - if no one else responds to this ticket soon, you may want to bump one of those threads, to get the attention of the dev team

bill-auger <bill_auger>
Tue 13 Oct 2020 08:29:10 PM UTC, comment #9: 

The problem still exists in Version 68.4.2. If this problem isn't fixed after this long time (3½ Years now), does anybody has a manual workaround for it?

Werner Heisenberg <wernerheisenberg>
Fri 22 Mar 2019 04:22:10 PM UTC, comment #8: 

It does not work on IceCatMobile 60.5.1

Anonymous
Thu 14 Mar 2019 09:34:16 PM UTC, comment #7: 

BR #50960 and #50939 can be closed

the problems reported in BR #50960 and #50939 were most likely related; but are working now, even with libreJS enabled - this was probably a bug in libreJS, and not icecat

a similar BR is still open regarding this feature on icecat mobile - someone should verify if the sync feature works on the mobile port

bill-auger <bill_auger>
Sat 26 Jan 2019 10:59:40 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Same error on version 60.4.0

Tomislav Nakic-Alfirevic <tonalf>
Mon 10 Dec 2018 04:05:56 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Same error on version  60.3.0

Distopico Vegan <distopico>
Fri 20 Apr 2018 03:40:36 AM UTC, comment #4: 

From: [Bug-gnuzilla] Weave/sync logging errors, but I don't think I have it en - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2018-04/msg00001.html by Christopher Lemmer Webber:

Something strange has started happening recently in my copy of Icecat.
I noticed when doing an rsync between computers that files like this
have started to appear:

~/.mozilla/icecat/<my-browser-profile>.cwebber/weave/logs/error-sync-1523477157978.txt

I have logs for these as far back as April 3rd.  I notice that the
directory appears to have been created on June 9th 2017, which may have
been the last time I created a fresh profile... I'm not sure.

At any rate the logs look like:

1523477157946 Sync.Service INFO Starting sync at 2018-04-11 15:05:57
1523477157946 Sync.Service DEBUG In sync: should login.
1523477157946 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG observed: weave:service:login:start
1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: error.login.reason.no_username => error.login.reason.no_username
1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: service.client_not_configured => service.client_not_configured
1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: error.login.reason.no_username => error.login.reason.no_username
1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: service.client_not_configured => service.client_not_configured
1523477157950 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG observed: weave:service:login:error
1523477157950 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG onLoginError: login=error.login.reason.no_username, sync=success.sync
1523477157952 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score.
1523477157952 Sync.ErrorHandler ERROR Sync encountered a login error
1523477157954 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception calling WrappedLock: Aborting login, client not configured.
1523477157954 Sync.Service DEBUG Not syncing: login returned false.
1523477157966 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username
1523477157968 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username
1523477157972 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username
1523477157972 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username

This is strange IMO.  I never enabled sync, so why is it even trying?
Furthermore, the Sync tab in Icecat's settings page does not even open
for me.

Anyone seen similar things?  I'd love to disable this entirely.  I
haven't done a tcpdump to check but I hope it's not pinging the server
for this.  It's not the most serious thing I suppose since it never gets
past login, but it's still troubling.

I am not subscribed to this list so please Cc me on future replies.

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David Hedlund <beloved>
Group Member
Tue 01 Aug 2017 04:28:01 AM UTC, comment #3: 

i was able to login to sync after disabling libreJS - per:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-librejs/2017-04/msg00002.html

possibly related to:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50939

bill-auger <bill_auger>
Tue 23 May 2017 04:51:31 PM UTC, comment #2: 

same issue with 52.1.0 (64-bit) on debian/testing

when trying to log into firefox sync - i can get to the "sync" pane in preferences but when i press the "sign in" button the browser tries to load

    about:accounts?action=signin&entrypoint=preferences

and shows a spinner that never completes - after this the sync pane in preferences is no longer accessible - in the console i see the following errors:


console.error:
  Message: TypeError: this.sandbox is undefined
  Stack:
    receive@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/content/worker-child.js:87:7
emitOnObject@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:112:9
emit@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:89:38
messageReceived@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/remote/child.js:67:37

console.error:
  Message: TypeError: this.sandbox is undefined
  Stack:
    receive@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/content/worker-child.js:87:7
emitOnObject@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:112:9
emit@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:89:38
messageReceived@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/remote/child.js:67:37

console.error:
  Message: TypeError: this.sandbox is undefined
  Stack:
    receive@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/content/worker-child.js:87:7
emitOnObject@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:112:9
emit@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/event/core.js:89:38
messageReceived@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js -> resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/remote/child.js:67:37


bill-auger <bill_auger>
Sun 07 May 2017 06:55:07 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Same issue with icecat 45.7.0 on lineageOS 14.1.

Denis Dordoigne <ddordoigne>
Sat 06 May 2017 05:59:44 PM UTC, original submission:  

I can't connect with my fitefox profile In the sync parameters, i only have an icon who spins endlessly.

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