[CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

[Johnny Hughes]

On 10/15/2018 11:40 PM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> On 10/12/2018 08:24 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night.
>>>>
>>>> Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny
>>>> me thinks.
>>>>
>>>> Try to log in to a web service I use and find that my password does not
>>>> appear.
>>>>
>>>> Check preferences and find that no master password is set and the
>>>> password list / table is empty.
>>>>
>>>> As I do not trust my passwords to the cloud I do not save these to my
>>>> firefox profile ..... so back to manual entry for all my sites.... wow
>>>> going to be a slow month as I reset scores of passwords.
>>>>
>>>> Any one else have this problem and any clues as to what causes this? I
>>>> am concerned if this should happen again, as I have saved passwords for
>>>> many scores of web services.
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>
>>> We've run into this.
>>>
>>> Is it fixed in the latest firefox, 60.2.2-1?
>>>
>>> If not, it is not clear to me how to use the
>>>
>>> export NSS_DEFAULT_DB_TYPE="sql"
>>>
>>> method mentioned. Do we restore the old key3.db file, have the user set
>>> that variable, then start the new firefox? With that create a key4.db
>>> file
>>> and use it from then on?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It will be fixed when this is released:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1633932#c23
>>
>> In the mean time, for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7 (x86_64, i386) .. there is a
>> temporary unsigned build here:
>>
>> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c6-firefox60.x86_64/firefox/20181015143830/
>>
>> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-firefox60.x86_64/firefox/20181015143830/
> 
> Thanks for these builds!
> Unfortunately I did have problems after updating to them. The session
> wouldn't restore as usual and some tabs simply kept empty. The URL was
> shown correctly but the webpage wasn't visible. Reloading didn't help.
> 
> Downgrading to the current version fixed it again.
> 
> Any ideas what could be wrong?
> 

No idea .. the buildlog seems OK.  This is not released yet upstream is
likely in QA testing now.


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