Something strange has started happening recently in my copy of Icecat. I noticed when doing an rsync between computers that files like this have started to appear:
~/.mozilla/icecat/<my-browser-profile>.cwebber/weave/logs/error-sync-1523477157978.txt I have logs for these as far back as April 3rd. I notice that the directory appears to have been created on June 9th 2017, which may have been the last time I created a fresh profile... I'm not sure. At any rate the logs look like: 1523477157946 Sync.Service INFO Starting sync at 2018-04-11 15:05:57 1523477157946 Sync.Service DEBUG In sync: should login. 1523477157946 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG observed: weave:service:login:start 1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: error.login.reason.no_username => error.login.reason.no_username 1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: service.client_not_configured => service.client_not_configured 1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: error.login.reason.no_username => error.login.reason.no_username 1523477157950 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: service.client_not_configured => service.client_not_configured 1523477157950 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG observed: weave:service:login:error 1523477157950 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG onLoginError: login=error.login.reason.no_username, sync=success.sync 1523477157952 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score. 1523477157952 Sync.ErrorHandler ERROR Sync encountered a login error 1523477157954 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception calling WrappedLock: Aborting login, client not configured. 1523477157954 Sync.Service DEBUG Not syncing: login returned false. 1523477157966 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username 1523477157968 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username 1523477157972 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username 1523477157972 browserwindow.syncui DEBUG _loginFailed has sync state=error.login.reason.no_username This is strange IMO. I never enabled sync, so why is it even *trying*? Furthermore, the Sync tab in Icecat's settings page does not even open for me. Anyone seen similar things? I'd love to disable this entirely. I haven't done a tcpdump to check but I hope it's not pinging the server for this. It's not the most serious thing I suppose since it never gets past login, but it's still troubling. I am not subscribed to this list so please Cc me on future replies. -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
