Bug#569795: iceweasel: Search field doesn't work anymore

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:44:54PM +0100, Simon Chopin wrote:
> 2010/2/14 Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:16:22PM +0100, Simon Chopin wrote:
> > > Package: iceweasel
> > > Version: 3.5.6-2
> > > Severity: important
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Since yesterday, I have experienced some troubles with the search engine
> > field. At first, the Google research simply
> > > didn't launch when I hit the Enter key (it wasn't at startup, the
> > application was launched since a pretty long time).
> > > I restarted Iceweasel, and then not only I wasn't able to launch any
> > search request through that, but Google search wasn't
> > > available in the list of search engine, and was replaced by Yahoo.
> > >
> > > I eventually upgraded iceweasel and got Google Search back, but I still
> > wasn't able to launch any search with any search engine.
> >
> > Can you check if the Error Console, available in the Tools menu show you
> > some error message after you try to use the search box ?
> >
> > Can you also check how it works in a safe-mode session (run
> > iceweasel -safe-mode) ?
> >
> Mike
> >
> 
> I checked in safe mode, and I got this message from the Error Console :
> 
> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
> 0x80630002 [nsIFormHistory2.addEntry]"  nsresult: "0x80630002 (<unknown>)"
> location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml ::
> handleSearchCommand :: line 443"  data: no]
> 
> I assume this is it. However, this message appears only when I click on
> the... *loupe* on the right of the field, the Enter key doesn't do anything.

Can you try upgrading or reinstalling xulrunner-1.9.1 ?

Mike