182213 - After the installation Mozilla will not start. The Splash screen just stays on the screen.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Gil Bollinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: 

After the installation Mozilla will not start. The Splash screen just stays on 
the screen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Uninstalled Mozilla 1.2b
2. Installed Mozilla 1.2
3. When Mozilla 1.2 attempts to run the splash screen freezes on the screen.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

if you see the splash screen you are past the installer ..:)

Comment 2

[Misha Chitharanjan]

I'm having the same problem.  I installed 1.2 on my WinME machine, to replace 
1.2b, and mozilla worked ONCE.  I set it to change skins to modern, and then 
restarted.  Now it just hangs on the splash screen.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

really reassign...

Comment 4

[Rainer Koschnick]

I had the same behaviour when I updated from 1.2b.  I deleted all of the .rdf
files and the chrome folder of my profile and the mozilla installation directory
in order to get it back to work.

Comment 5

[Phillip Rhodes]

I also had this same problem.  Deleting my existing (1.2b) profile fixed the 
problem here.

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

probably dupe of something else.

Do you have multiple profiles? If so, try "mozilla -p profilename"

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

Gil and others experiencing this: Did you have other chrome such as uabar,
spellchecker, calendar, etc. installed?

Comment 8

[Tom Cumming]

I have been experiencing this problem off and on for ages. It did it last night
on v1.2.1 with JSLib, Tagzilla, UR-Bar and the spellchecker installed, but I
have experienced this problem with just the unmodified program as well, and
older versions. I have also found the problem can pop up long after I have
installed it - last night I just tried to start the browser and it would not
start, though I have had it installed since the last time this happened (about a
month ago) and have had to reinstall it again to get it to work.

I have also had it with the mail/news client as well - the browser would still
run fine but just hangs when I try to open the mail/news client. I also noticed
that when it hangs, the Mozilla process is still occupying 100% CPU resources,
and it causes my laptop's secondary fan to start cutting in and out whereas it
normally only comes on when playing games.

Comment 9

[Martin]

Confirm this bug: PC, Win. NT 4.0, SP6a, Desktop Extensions installed (IE 4)

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

reporter (Gil Bollinger) do you have a 3rd party theme installed?
If so this could be dupe of bug 138239

Comment 11

[Tom Cumming]

I'm not the original reporter, but I can confirm it does occur with the "modern"
theme supplied with Mozilla, not just with 3rd party themes.

Comment 12

[Daniel Wang]

reporter(Gil Bollinger), does newer builds work for you now?

Comment 13

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

WFM with 2003060308 (original reporter probably suffered from a XUL.MFL
corruption, a problem fixed now). Resolving bug as WFM. As for other comments,
please file separate bugs with detailed informations using a recent build.