Closed
Bug 193638
(startup)
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
[Meta] corrupt or lost pref.js / startup configuration error (tracking bug)
Categories
(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)
Tracking
()
RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
People
(Reporter: Matti, Unassigned)
References
(Depends on 2 open bugs)
Details
(Keywords: meta)
This bugs is for duping incoming bug reports. This is a possible bug in mozilla but it could be also caused by a crash (system or mozilla itself) while Mozilla writes the prefs.js file. If you have this problem you can do this to fix this problem : first locate your mozilla user-profile (see the release notes for the path) and after that close mozilla including quicklaunch a) rename the file "prefs.js" in your mozilla profile to "prefs.old" and rename "prefs.bak" to "prefs.js". ("prefs.bak" is a backup generated by mozilla) or b) open prefs.js in a text-editor and try to fix (and possible delete) the corrupt line or c) create a new mozilla user-profile. (mozilla -profilemanager)
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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*** Bug 193589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 2•22 years ago
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*** Bug 193220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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*** Bug 192882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 4•22 years ago
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*** Bug 191060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 5•22 years ago
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*** Bug 191059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 6•22 years ago
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*** Bug 162609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 7•22 years ago
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*** Bug 182579 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 8•22 years ago
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*** Bug 184096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 9•22 years ago
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*** Bug 187070 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 10•22 years ago
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*** Bug 181226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 11•22 years ago
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*** Bug 176855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 12•22 years ago
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*** Bug 172913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 13•22 years ago
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*** Bug 170560 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 14•22 years ago
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*** Bug 170321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 15•22 years ago
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*** Bug 169249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 16•22 years ago
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*** Bug 167453 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 17•22 years ago
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*** Bug 165797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 18•22 years ago
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*** Bug 164383 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 19•22 years ago
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*** Bug 162597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 20•22 years ago
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*** Bug 139838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 21•22 years ago
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*** Bug 119805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 22•22 years ago
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*** Bug 139971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 23•22 years ago
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*** Bug 141005 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 24•22 years ago
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*** Bug 147053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 25•22 years ago
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*** Bug 153625 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 26•22 years ago
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*** Bug 153742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 27•22 years ago
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*** Bug 154189 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 28•22 years ago
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*** Bug 158233 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Updated•22 years ago
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Blocks: prefs_lost, 191101
Summary: corrupt pref.js/startup configuration error → corrupt pref.js/startup configuration error
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Comment 29•22 years ago
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Conrad: Is this possible the same or a releated problem of bug 170539 ? I can't believe that this bugs are only caused by a crash while writing or a corrupt File System.
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Updated•22 years ago
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Alias: startup
Updated•22 years ago
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Blocks: profile-corrupt
Comment 30•22 years ago
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*** Bug 162290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 31•22 years ago
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*** Bug 190386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 32•22 years ago
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*** Bug 174321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 33•22 years ago
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*** Bug 183145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 34•21 years ago
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*** Bug 194743 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 35•21 years ago
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Hi, I encountered the problem and have confirmed this to be caused by an incomplete prefs.js file. The corrupted prefs.js file has the following lines. I hope this helps pinpoint the problem. # Mozilla User Preferences // This is a generated file! user_pref("mail.smtpservers", ""); user_pref("mail.ui.folderpane.version", 2); user_pref("mailnews.ui.threadpane.version", 2); user_pref("prefs.converted-to-utf8", true); The original file had the text as listed below. On restoring this file, the problem got resolved. # Mozilla User Preferences // This is a generated file! user_pref("browser.bookmarks.added_static_root", true); user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine", "engine://C%3A%5CProgram%20Files%5Cmozilla.org%5CMozilla%5Csearchplugins%5CNetscapeSearch.src"); user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.mozilla.org/start/"); user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.2.1"); user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true); user_pref("dom.disable_window_flip", true); user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true); user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.status", true); user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "windows-1252, x-mac-roman, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1"); user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.mailview.cache", "ISO-8859-1"); user_pref("ldap_2.prefs_migrated", true); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.history.filename", "history.mab"); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.history.replication.lastChangeNumber", 0); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.filename", "abook.mab"); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.replication.lastChangeNumber", 0); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.work.description", "work"); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.work.dirType", 2); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.work.filename", "impab-2.mab"); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.work.isOffline", false); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.work.position", 3); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.work.replication.lastChangeNumber", 0); user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1"); user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1"); user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2"); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account2"); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account1"); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2"); user_pref("mail.compose.attach.dir", "C:"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.draft_folder", "mailbox://amathur%25tychi.com@mail.bigoar.com/Drafts"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.drafts_folder_picker_mode", "0"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder", "mailbox://amathur%25tychi.com@mail.bigoar.com/Sent"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder_picker_mode", "0"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fullName", "Amitabh Mathur"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.organization", ""); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.reply_to", ""); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.smtpServer", "smtp1"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.stationery_folder", "mailbox://amathur%25tychi.com@mail.bigoar.com/Templates"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.tmpl_folder_picker_mode", "0"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.useremail", "amathur@bigoar.com"); user_pref("mail.identity.id1.valid", true); user_pref("mail.root.none", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\Default User\\7vvh686h.slt\\Mail"); user_pref("mail.root.pop3", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\Default User\\7vvh686h.slt\\Mail"); user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\Default User\\7vvh686h.slt\\Mail\\mail.bigoar.com"); user_pref("mail.server.server1.download_on_biff", true); user_pref("mail.server.server1.hostname", "mail.bigoar.com"); user_pref("mail.server.server1.login_at_startup", true); user_pref("mail.server.server1.name", "amathur@bigoar.com"); user_pref("mail.server.server1.type", "pop3"); user_pref("mail.server.server1.userName", "amathur"); user_pref("mail.server.server2.directory", "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\Default User\\7vvh686h.slt\\Mail\\Local Folders"); user_pref("mail.server.server2.hostname", "Local Folders"); user_pref("mail.server.server2.name", "Local Folders"); user_pref("mail.server.server2.type", "none"); user_pref("mail.server.server2.userName", "nobody"); user_pref("mail.smtp.defaultserver", "smtp1"); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.auth_method", 1); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.hostname", "mail.yahoo.com"); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.try_ssl", 0); user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.username", "test"); user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp1"); user_pref("mail.startup.enabledMailCheckOnce", true); user_pref("mail.ui.folderpane.version", 2); user_pref("mailnews.ui.addressbook_results.version", 2); user_pref("mailnews.ui.threadpane.version", 2); user_pref("messenger.save.dir", "C:\\Work"); user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 0); user_pref("prefs.converted-to-utf8", true); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_bgcolor", false); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_bgimages", false); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_evenpages", true); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_footercenter", ""); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_footerleft", ""); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_footerright", ""); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_headercenter", ""); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_headerleft", ""); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_headerright", ""); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_in_color", true); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_margin_bottom", "0.5"); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_margin_left", "0.5"); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_margin_right", "0.5"); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_margin_top", "0.5"); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_oddpages", true); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_orientation", 0); user_pref("print.printer_\\\\Towson6\\DC2Cannon7200.print_reversed", false); user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false); user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false); user_pref("signon.SignonFileName", "44413608.s"); user_pref("timebomb.first_launch_time", "1044415095856000"); user_pref("wallet.SchemaValueFileName", "44545006.w"); user_pref("wallet.caveat", true); user_pref("wallet.crypto", true);
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Comment 36•21 years ago
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*** Bug 195964 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 37•21 years ago
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*** Bug 196469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 38•21 years ago
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-> default owner to decide what to do with this bug. (invalid ?) But we can always use this as dupe target..
Assignee: matti → ccarlen
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Comment 39•21 years ago
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*** Bug 196969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 40•21 years ago
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*** Bug 197592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 41•21 years ago
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*** Bug 196812 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 42•21 years ago
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*** Bug 198187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 43•21 years ago
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*** Bug 199453 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 44•21 years ago
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*** Bug 202785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 45•21 years ago
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I can't seem to locate prefs.js anywhere. Is it possible that the file was never downloaded?
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Comment 46•21 years ago
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That should be in your home directory. (see the Mozilla release notes for the path). One directory is makred hidden and you must configure explorer to show hidden files. You can also try solution c)
Updated•21 years ago
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Updated•21 years ago
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Summary: corrupt pref.js/startup configuration error → corrupt or lost pref.js / startup configuration error
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Comment 47•21 years ago
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*** Bug 162245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 48•21 years ago
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*** Bug 204732 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 49•21 years ago
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adding bug 201812 for pc-cillin, although i thought there was an older bug for that...
Blocks: 201812
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Comment 50•21 years ago
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Sarah : See bug 170539 comment #138 (but bug 170539 is fixed for 1.3)
Comment 51•21 years ago
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*** Bug 205511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 52•21 years ago
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*** Bug 192305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 53•21 years ago
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*** Bug 210354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 54•21 years ago
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*** Bug 210841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 55•21 years ago
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*** Bug 212086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 56•21 years ago
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*** Bug 212881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 57•21 years ago
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*** Bug 213040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 58•21 years ago
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*** Bug 217037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 59•21 years ago
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Matti, Does the method a), renaming prefs.bak to prefs.js, work always? Are there cases even the backup file is corrupted? We have a large number of feedback from Japanese users of NS7.1 on this problem. It all has to do with localized names of items like "Local Fodler", "Custom Toolbar", "Editor history", etc.
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Comment 60•21 years ago
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It should always work if you get a startup configuration error but it will not help if your prefs.js is lost. This could be also caused by other applications who are possible modify Mozilla's prefs.js and corrupt it. Anti-virus products may possibly write to this file to change the mail-server to a local mail-proxy server to scann incoming mails for virus attachments. (It's known that PC Cillin cause a complete loss of the prefs.js file) BTW: for c) : You can use http://matti.no-ip.org/Mozilla/profile.txt if you want to move your old mails and settings back into a new profile. (note: this Host is blocked by the Netscape Firewall)
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Comment 61•21 years ago
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*** Bug 220484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 62•21 years ago
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*** Bug 221228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 63•21 years ago
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*** Bug 222130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•21 years ago
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Flags: blocking1.6b?
Flags: blocking1.6a?
Updated•21 years ago
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Flags: blocking1.6a?
Comment 64•21 years ago
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Darin, chofmann says that you've poked around in prefs for minimo. Can you help us here?
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Comment 65•21 years ago
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There is a patch pending in bug 132517 which should help to avoid this.
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Comment 66•21 years ago
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*** Bug 227081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 67•21 years ago
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we may get something for but 132517 but it's unlikely that this bug, without a patch, is going to be fixed for 1.6b. We want to make a big push on prefs and other profile dataloss issues for 1.7.
Flags: blocking1.6b? → blocking1.6b-
Updated•21 years ago
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Flags: blocking1.7a?
Comment 68•21 years ago
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*** Bug 217835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•21 years ago
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Flags: blocking1.7b?
Flags: blocking1.7a?
Flags: blocking1.7a-
Comment 69•20 years ago
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*** Bug 191557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 70•20 years ago
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*** Bug 211759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 71•20 years ago
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*** Bug 174130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 72•20 years ago
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*** Bug 186493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 73•20 years ago
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*** Bug 202706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 74•20 years ago
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*** Bug 223162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 75•20 years ago
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*** Bug 224799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 76•20 years ago
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*** Bug 237133 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 77•20 years ago
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more progress made here for beta... will take more fixes for final as they come in.
Flags: blocking1.7b?
Flags: blocking1.7b-
Flags: blocking1.7+
Comment 78•20 years ago
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I just experienced a problem that sounded like I had lost my prefs.js. But when I tried to recover the old versions of the file, it made no difference. The real problem was that I my profile had been silently changed to be the Default User profile rather than the profile I normally use. This happened because the browser had crashed previously (mysteriously in the night, all by itself) but it left some part of itself still running for returning feedback, so when I started up a new mozilla, it automatically chose the Default User, and kept doing so even after I had killed off the feedback window, since the default profile had been changed. I finally manually switched my profile in Tools/Switch Profile and things seem back to normal. I'd suggest there should be more noise every time you start up as the Default User.
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Comment 79•20 years ago
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comment #78 is very different and is NOT this bug. You had a running Mozilla process in the background (your profile is locked) and you get a Profile in Use Dialog.
Comment 80•20 years ago
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*** Bug 217047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 81•20 years ago
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*** Bug 216215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•20 years ago
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Flags: blocking1.7a-
Flags: blocking1.6b-
Updated•20 years ago
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Flags: blocking1.7+ → blocking1.7-
Comment 82•20 years ago
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FF prefs are lost after 2 days, this is 2nd time in 4 days 4th time in a row. No common denominator, I didn't do anything to justify behavior, no new software installs, etc. Fresh install of XP Pro, SP2 updates all 5 days prior. New DL of FF, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Comment 83•20 years ago
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*** Bug 209301 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 84•20 years ago
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*** Bug 161164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 85•20 years ago
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*** Bug 217377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 86•20 years ago
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*** Bug 230105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 87•20 years ago
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*** Bug 260457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 88•20 years ago
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*** Bug 224353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 89•20 years ago
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*** Bug 246988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 90•20 years ago
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*** Bug 241930 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•19 years ago
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Flags: blocking-aviary1.1+
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Comment 91•19 years ago
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*** Bug 215800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•19 years ago
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Flags: blocking-aviary1.1+ → blocking-aviary1.1-
Comment 92•18 years ago
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says "thunderbird is already running" when i launch the program. says to close the process or restart the system....
Updated•16 years ago
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Assignee: ccarlen → nobody
QA Contact: bugzilla → prefs
Comment 93•16 years ago
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Putting Bug 392956 and Bug 422447 in dependency tree(Blocks:), to find real problem and cause of the problem, and to make search/tracking easy, although both bugs are not to resolve specific problem (meta bug like, but not real meta bug). By the way, please don't Dup bugs to this meta bug(meta bug since initial) any more.
Updated•16 years ago
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Summary: corrupt or lost pref.js / startup configuration error → corrupt or lost pref.js / startup configuration error (tracking bug)
Updated•16 years ago
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Comment 95•15 years ago
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I've discovered Bug 123929. Setting dependency for ease of tracking. > Bug 123929 (profile-corrupt) Prevent and repair profile corruption (tracking bug)
Comment 96•15 years ago
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I've added the bugs here to the other bug (given that the other is older and has much more bugs added), merging the two. This is now a DUP of 132929.
No longer blocks: 132517, prefs_lost
Comment 97•15 years ago
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Bug 123929 is for "corruption of files in profile", but this bug focuses on "loss/corruption of prefs.js"(can be said subset of Bug 123929). DUPing is correct action?
Comment 98•15 years ago
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Bug 191101 seems to have been added at the wrong end. Fixing.
Comment 99•15 years ago
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We should make up our mind about this. Is this a duplicate or a subtracker? If a duplicate, it should be marked as such. If a subtracker, dependencies of this shouldn't be duplicated there. To me, it seems to be a subtracker. Does anyone disagree?
Updated•15 years ago
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QA Contact: preferences → preferences-backend
Comment 100•15 years ago
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Adding bugs DUP'ed to bug 304045 to "Depends On:" fields, to avoid loss of incident that prefs.js corruption continued to happen even after use of nsSafeFileOutputStream(prefs.js).
Comment 101•15 years ago
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Adding bugs DUP'ed to this bug to "Depends On:" field, in order to see history.
Depends on: 119805, 139838, 139971, 141005, 147053, 153625, 153742, 154189, 158233, 161164, 162245, 162290, 162597, 162609, 164383, 165797, 167453, 169249, 170321, 170560, 172913, 174130, 174321, 176855, 181226, 182579, 183145, 184096, 186493, 187070, 190386, 191059, 191060, 191557, 192305, 192882, 193220, 193589, 194743, 195964, 196469, 196812, 196969, 197592, 198187, 199453, 202706, 202785, 204732, 205511, 209301, 210354, 210841, 211759, 212086, 212881, 213040, 215800, 216215, 217037, 217047, 217377, 217835, 220484, 221228, 222130, 223162, 224353, 224799, 227081, 230105, 237133, 241930, 246988, 260457
Comment 102•15 years ago
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FYI. As written in Bug 246722 Comment #2, use of nsSafeFileOutputStream(prefs.js) was introduced by Bug 250092(FIXED on 2004-07-19), and Bug 246722 was WONTFIX'ed on 2004-07-28.
Comment 103•14 years ago
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280661
Comment 104•14 years ago
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FYI. Bug 477934(fixed around 2009/05) narrowed window of prefs.js loss even after fix of Bug 250092 upon system crash. > Bug 477934 nsSafeFileOutputStream (prefs.js) not safe from system crashes
Comment 105•13 years ago
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Under this conditions: - Linux-Fx 10. - Profile on an NFS-share which is not sync-mounted. - User is 'over quota' (blocks limit exceeded). Firefox will leave the prefs.js with file size 0. This happens because in this configuration the "over quota" does not cause the writes to fail but the close instead. This behavior is well known (http://linux.frank4dd.com/en/man5/nfs.htm#13). I suppose that Firefox does not check the return value of the close call.
Comment 106•7 years ago
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This bug isn't being used for tracking, so I'm going to close it. That doesn't mean the individual issues are invalid and I'll be looking at each separately.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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