118035 - Mozilla is not painting anything at all.

Status: CLOSED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Skinability, defect)

Description

[Tommy Butler]

No matter how many times I uninstall, and reinstall Mozilla --even when I
uninstall newer versions and reinstall older ones that used to work, Mozilla's
entire gui looks like a DOS program running in 16 bit mode while hovering over
my desktop.  It am unable to fix it, and don't even know what caused it. 
Reproducing it doesn't seem to be difficult, because all I have to do is start
it up.

You may note that with the submission of this bug I am browsing with the latest
build of Mozilla, [ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7)
Gecko/20011221 ], and this is because I am surfing on another computer in our
subnet on which I also installed Mozilla.  This installation does not appear to
have any problems at all.

I have put together a repository at my website which you can find by going to
http://www.atrixnet.com/bugzilla/01-03-02/ which was also entered in the URL
field of this bug report.

The repository contains several screenshots of mozilla engaged in different
tasks while this problem is occuring.  All of these screenshots are '.png'
graphics and there are 12.

I have also placed in the repository a MS SYSINFO file which can be opened on
Win98 to see exactly what is the state of the machine I experienced problems
with, and in great detail.  It is the file with the '.nfo' file extension.  Also
in the directory is a text version of that file which I exported to text format
in the event that someone could not view the binary '.nfo' file.

There is also a '.dwl' file which contains a shapshot of my system produced by
the Microsoft Dr. Watson diagnostic bug reporting tool provided with Win98
distributions.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This bug is invalid because you enabled a debug preference.
(Preferences/debug/debug XUL boxes)
You can create a new profile with "mozilla -profilemanager" or
open prefs.js in your profile and change the line 
"user_pref("xul.debug.box", true);  to
"user_pref("xul.debug.box", false);"

Comment 2

[Tommy Butler]

This bug was the progenitor of bug 118068 which goes into further detail.  This
bug should simply be closed.