1097748 - Thunderbird Daily failing to start, with "Couldn't load XPCOM." error

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

STR:
1) Quit Thunderbird daily (running yesterday's build I believe)
2) Reopen it (presumably it updated on startup to today's build)

ER:
Opens fine

AR:
"Couldn't load XPCOM." error alert, which open pressing OK just results in the process exiting.

I don't know how best to find extra information to help with this. (eg I tried running via the console, but nothing was output to stdout/stderr)

application.ini says:

[App]
Vendor=
Name=Thunderbird
RemotingName=thunderbird
CodeName=Daily
Version=36.0a1
BuildID=20141112030203
SourceRepository=https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central
SourceStamp=8247ad339166
ID={3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}

Win8.1 x64, but win32 x86 build of daily.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

In case it wasn't clear, this occurs on every startup, and I can't find a way to successfully open Daily.

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

This is most likely due to bug 1084973, which has been backed out.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Bad:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2014-11-12-03-02-03-comm-central/

Good:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2014-11-11-03-02-00-comm-central/

(In reply to Patrick Cloke [:clokep] from comment #2)
> This is most likely due to bug 1084973, which has been backed out.

Thanks :-)

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to Patrick Cloke [:clokep] from comment #2)
> This is most likely due to bug 1084973, which has been backed out.

Indeed.

Comment 5

[Rehan Khan]

I am getting same problem Error window comeup when click the Thunderbird icon.