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Firefox puts store paths into extensions.json and breaks when they are GCd #77514

Open ambrop72 opened 4 years ago

ambrop72 commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug I've just had Firefox updated from 72.0 to 72.0.1 (nixos-unstable), and I did a garbage collect, and Firefox failed to start with many errors (in the console) about /nix/store/ files not found (I don't have the errors available any more). I found store paths in ".mozilla/firefox//extensions.json" that did not exist any more. I was able to get Firefox to run again by deleting that file.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Update the system such that Firefox goes from 72.0 to 72.0.1.
  2. nix-collect-garbage --delete-old
  3. Try to start Firefox.

Maintainer information:

# a list of nixpkgs attributes affected by the problem
attribute: firefox
# a list of nixos modules affected by the problem
module:
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