[tor-qa] Testing ESR 31 based Nightlies

[Georg Koppen]

Gunes Acar wrote:
> I got the following error on 32bit Ubuntu 12.04:
> addons.xpi-utils ERROR Unable to read anything useful from the database
> 
> Despite the error message, all addons were active and I could browse
> without a problem. The message only showed up on the first run, after
> each fresh installation (but never on the subsequent runs from an
> existing installation...)

yeah, thanks. This happens as we ship a stripped-down profile and the
Tor Browser has the impression it is upgrading from an older version and
is thus assuming the extensions.* files are available. But that is not
the case, and hence the error. It is harmless.

Georg

> strace and TBB logs right before the error message:
> 
> $strace -ff -e trace=open,read ./start-tor-browser -debug 2>&1 | tee
> tbbtrace.log
> ...
> [pid  5759]
> open("[...]/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/extensions.json",
> O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> [pid  5759]
> open("[...]/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/extensions.sqlite",
> O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC, 0644) = 31
> [pid  5759] read(31, "", 100)           = 0
> 1412334556740	addons.xpi-utils	ERROR	Unable to read anything useful
> from the database
> 
> 
> On 10/01/2014 05:36 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> we have built some nightlies for the upcoming switch to ESR 31 and
>> they are even reproducible which is good news. They can be found
>> on
> 
>> https://people.torproject.org/~gk/testbuilds/esr31-nightly/
> 
>> . Testing them would be really helpful. Do the bundles start at
>> all (especially on older OSes like Debian stable and Windows XP)?
>> If so, do you see any weird and or broken things not already found
>> among
> 
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords=~ff31-esr
> 
>>  ?
> 
>> Georg
> 
> 
> 
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