Firefox Sync silently errors out as it's trying to download an add-on
i'm getting this in the browser console when Firefox 59.0.2 on Fedora is syncing:
1526076217390 addons.xpi WARN Failed to start download for addon https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/951074/session_sync-3.0.2-an+fx-linux.xpi?src=sync: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIProperties.get]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/FileUtils.jsm :: FileUtils_getDir :: line 64" data: no] Stack trace: FileUtils_getDir()@resource://gre/modules/FileUtils.jsm:64 < getTemporaryFile()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:1017 < openChannel()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:2244 < startDownload()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:2237 < install()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:2176 < install()@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm:2648 < installAddonFromSearchResult/<()@resource://services-sync/addonutils.js:147 < handleInstall()@resource://services-sync/addonutils.js:53 < safeCall()@resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.jsm:188 < makeSafe/<()@resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.jsm:203 < waitForSyncCallback()@resource://services-common/async.js:97 < makeSpinningCallback/callback.wait()@resource://services-common/async.js:166 < create()@resource://services-sync/engines/addons.js:317 < applyIncoming()@resource://services-sync/engines.js:361
I am the owner of the my home directory and permissions on mozilla directory tree are 755.
It appears that this error is also affecting regular downloads from all websites. I have treid creating a new, empty profile and still get the error.
All i get is this message in a popup:
"[null] could not be saved, because an unknown error occurred.
Try saving to a different location."
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Did you get a segmentation fault? and as a freebsd user im embarrassed to ask what 755 mod is, what access level is this, isnt 777 a global rwx ?
no segmentation fault. it just silently stops. it doesn't sync anything (i'm only syncing prefs and add-ons) but it doesn't provide any information that it didn't sync.
755 is rwx for user, rx for group and rx for others
would you come to #sumo on irc.mozilla.org tomorrow around 11am EST, i think i can better assist if we talk live.
if you are awake now, have you tried compiling the source code in a directory in ~/ ?