John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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'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.
Actually, I think I was full of crap when I was talking about $TMPDIR. I think the stuff in there I saw was stuff I had manually extracted there. It will still help to keep an eye on the .jar files in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/chrome though. -- You win again, gravity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
