1066753 - windows don't appear on startup after software update

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Attachment: error console messages

After restarting Instantbird to apply a software update from the Software Update window, the app's windows don't appear, even though the Window menu says they're open.

Trying to access them from the dock doesn't help; nor does selecting them from the Window menu; but selecting Minimize from the Window menu and *then* selecting the window that was minimized does cause it to appear.

I have to do that for each window individually (i.e. the buddy list window and the window containing all the conversation tabs that open automatically on startup).  Alternately, if I simply restart the app again, the windows appear.  So the problem only manifests on startup after an update.

This has been happening for a few weeks (months?) now, so it isn't a recent regression.  I use Nightly builds, and I think it reproduces consistently, but it's possible that I didn't see it once or twice after updating to the latest nightly.

I definitely saw it today, after updating to version 1.6a1pre (20140912142852), which is what I have now.  I don't see anything particularly relevant in the Error Console, but I'm attaching the complete set of messages I saw there this morning after experiencing this problem.

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Probably doesn't truly blocks 1.6, but would be nice to at least have done some investigation of what's going on.

Comment 2

[aleth [:aleth]]

Do all the windows reappear if you (instead of the above procedure) single-click on the dock icon after restart? In that case, I can reproduce.

Maybe the updater restarts IB without adding a -foreground command line parameter.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Ah, yes, they do reappear if I click on the dock icon!  I just updated from Friday's nightly to today's nightly, experienced the problem, and then clicked on the doc icon; the windows then appeared.

Comment 4

[aleth [:aleth]]

I'm not sure this is related to IB-triggered restarts specifically actually, because

1) From the code I don't see why this wouldn't be working for our updates http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/xre/nsCommandLineServiceMac.cpp#71

2) I've just seen this behaviour when starting IB by clicking on the dock icon.

It may be related to a race condition when applying an update on restart though? I haven't looked into when the new version actually gets installed yet.

Comment 5

[aleth [:aleth]]

I haven't seen this problem for a long time now, so I'm tentatively marking it as WFM. Please reopen if it recurs.