104017 - Mail window is empty

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 106021

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Gael Le Mignot]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20011008
BuildID:    2001100908

Using build 2001100908 the mail window is empty: the frames and titles (ie Name,
Unread, ...) are here, but no content inside, as if I had no configured account
(even no Local Folders).

Edit... Mail and account settings... give me the correct list of accounts. 

This happens only when I have
user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_fastload", false);
in my perfs.js. 
It didn't happen with 2001100808.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_fastload", false); to prefs.js
2. Start Mozilla 2001100908
3. Open Mail/News

Actual Results:  No content in mail/news

Expected Results:  Contents in mail/news

Debian Sid
XFree 4.1.0.1
Kernel 2.4.10-ac7

Comment 1

[gredondo]

Same here with BuildID: 2001100903 on win2000

Comment 2

[Gael Le Mignot]

Ok, setting OS to All

Comment 3

[Aleksander Adamowski]

I can see this in 2001100903. Empty mail folder list and everything.
I can't see this back in 2001100803 - All is normal.
OS: Win 2000

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i cannot repro this on either mac os 10.1 or linux [2001.10.09.20-trunk and
2001.10.10.08-trunk, respectively].

Comment 5

[Gael Le Mignot]

Sairuh: Are you sure you are using
user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_fastload", false); ?

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

yes, i had set that pref manually before running the app.

Comment 7

[Marko Macek]

I have the problem too. build: 2001101003 (and the one from day before).

Comment 8

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Ha! I've got the culprit. It's XUL.mfl in the profile directory. Probably some
build around 2001-10-10 corrupts it.

Deleting it solves the problem.

You can use my XUL.mfl (I'll attach it in a while) as a testcase - you just need
to copy it to your profile directory overwriting your own XUL.mfl. You will need
some existing mail accounts in that profile.

Comment 9

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Attachment: zipped XUL.mfl (500 kb)

Comment 10

[Aleksander Adamowski]

So basically, to reproduce this you'll have to:
-1) Have the option 
    user_pref ("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_fastload", false);
    in your prefs.js
0) Get my fastload file (XUL.mfl) - it's for windows only! See bug 68045.
1) Create a new test profile
2) Add at least one mail account in that profile (I tested with 2 accounts)
3) Close Mozilla
4) Copy my XUL.mfl to the test profile directory overwriting existing one
5) Launch Mozilla
6) Launch MailNews

You may need to repeat steps 3-6 if it doesn't work the first time.

Comment 11

[Gael Le Mignot]

It works for me, with build 2001101108.
It didn't have to delete any XUL* file.
Other people, do you confirm?

Comment 12

[Pratik]

I saw this bug too but now its gone. I don't think I did anything in particular
to get rid of it. My suspicion is a more later nightly fixed the problem (for me
atleast).

Comment 13

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106021 ***

Comment 14

[Olga]

Verified dup.