252404 - Cannot launch Thunderbird ; a lot of xul errors when starting.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Frederic Bezies]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040720 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040720 Firefox/0.9.1+

Simple to reproduce : Catch a *brand new* source of aviary branch via CVS.

Build it. Package it using make -C mail/installer. Launch it.

Got a lot of xul errors :

<window id="messengerWindow"
^

  <broadcaster id="Communicator:WorkMode"
--^

    <menuitem id="hintsAndTips" accesskey="&hintsAndTips.accesskey;"
label="&hintsAndTips.label..."

Cannot the rest because window is too wide for a 1280x1024 screen display




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.See details


Actual Results:  
Lots of xul errors.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird window !

Is this the linux version of bug 252127 ?

I had to go back to my last working build, made on 18 july 2004.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Hrm, this sounds like a packaging scenario I'm not familiar with. There isn't a
linux thunderbird installer, is there? Why are you running the repackaging script?

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

For your info, I use this packaging script in order to get a standalone
thunderbird directory to "upgrade" a previous thunderbird. And also to have my
building sources as clean as possible.

I suppose this script is used by tinderboxes in order to release nightlies on
ftp, or am I wrong ?

I do the same for firefox with make -C browser/installer, and no problems at all
with firefox.

Problem appeared for thunderbird around 19 july.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

installed-chrome.txt is probably out of date relative to all of the locale
packaging changes.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/config/installed-chrome.txt

This would also explain why the windows .zip builds don't launch either.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Yeah, I didn't realize that we were using the repackaging script in
non-installer situations. I updated the mail/config/installed-chrome.txt file.

Comment 5

[Frederic Bezies]

fixed :p

I just upgraded my thunderbird build.

Thanks for killing this pita bug ;p

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Marking so

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'ing per Frederic's comment.