Bug#406618: iceape-browser: Bookmark manager fails to start due to XML error

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:57:45PM +0200, Heikki Kantola <hezu at iki.fi> wrote:
> According to Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:28:36PM +0200, Heikki Kantola <hezu+debian at iki.fi> wrote:
> > > Package: iceape-browser
> > > Version: 1.0.7-2
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > I seem to no longer be able to use the Iceape's bookmark manager option, 
> > > the program spits out a window reporting about following error:
> > > 
> > >  XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
> > >  Location: chrome://communicator/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul
> > >  Line Number 1, Column 1:
> > >  !-- -*- Mode: HTML; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*- -->
> > >  ^
> > > 
> > > I couldn't right away figure out where I find that file to verify if 
> > > there is really a "<" character missing...
> > 
> > Did you restart iceape after upgrading it ?
> 
> I might not have restarted the program rightaway when I upgraded
> Iceape, which happened about as soon as the updated package was
> available, but the program has been restarted since then more than once 
> as I have been switching computer off for the night. 
> 
> > Does it still fail if you restart iceape ?
> 
> Yes, I have previous experience with similar errors, but unlike the
> earlier ones this problem persists after restart. I did even reinstall 
> iceape-browser package just a moment ago and that did not help either...

Try removing ~/.mozilla/default/XUL.mfasl

Mike