[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#587292: chromium-browser: cookies lost at end of session

[Jonathan Nieder]

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Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> I found out what caused the problem: The SQLite database file for the
> cookies (~/.config/chromium/Default/Cookies) got corrupted:
> 
>   % sqlite3 Cookies
>   sqlite> select * from cookies;
>   Error: database disk image is malformed
> 
> After removing the corrupted file, chromium remembers cookies once
> again :)

Thanks for the explanation.  I think chromium should learn to detect
and report corruptions like this.