120059 - Pressing enter in URL bar does nothing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120049

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Wesley Tanaka]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020114
BuildID:    2002011421

I type a url into the URL bar, and press enter.  Nothing happens.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla
2. Type something into the url bar
3. Press Enter

Actual Results:  The page does not load.  In fact, nothing seems to happen.

Expected Results:  The browser should have gone to www.yahoo.com.

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90337 ***

Comment 2

[Wesley Tanaka]

I believe that bug 120059 is not a duplicate of bug 90337, bug 120059 *just*
appeared in recent builds, and is consistently reproducable on linux.  Bug 90337
has been around for a while, and does not appear to be consistently
reproducable.  I'm going to reopen 120059 and would suggest that people don't
hijack the bug 90037 report to mean 120059, since it looks like there's a
separate problem lurking in bug 90037 (which i have not experienced, by the way).

Comment 3

[Wesley Tanaka]

On the other hand, I don't know what I'm talking about here, so I could
definitely be wrong.  =)

Comment 4

[Leston Buell]

I think you're right about this not being a dupe of bug 90037. However, i think
that it is a dupe of bug 120049. As soon as i fixed my corrupted localstore.rdf
as i described in comment 8 at that bug, the URL bar problem also disappeared.
If i am correct, the bug should not be reproducible if a build from at least
2002-01-15-06 is used and if the localstore.rdf file is repaired.

Comment 5

[Erik Hensema]

I've had this exact same problem with Linux 2002015xx, now I'm back on Linux
2002011108, wiped out my .mozilla/ dir and the problem is gone.

The 'go' button also didn't respond.

It took me considerable effort to repair Mozilla. I've got the impression the
bug is also in my current build, as I've experienced it numerous times today.
However, eventually it was gone.

The pattern was always the same: on the first start, everything was fine. After
close/restart the locationbar stopped working.

I first started to experience the bug investigating bug 120051, a crash bug.
After that crash, the problem appeared. Proceed with caution.

Comment 6

[Leston Buell]

Which build were you using *exactly*? The fix for bug 120049 went in during the
wee hours of this morning, so which exact 2001-01-15... build is actually
important. I had the problem with a late night (-21?) build from last night. But
now i'm running 2002-01-15-06 and the problem is gone. Also, did you first run a
late-night 2002-01-14 build before installing the 2002-01-15 build? As i
understand it, the problem persists by virtue of the localstore.rdf file being
corrupted, so upgrading to a later (fixed) build might not solve the problem
until the localstore.rdf file is either deleted or repaired.

Anyone encountering this problem should first try deleting localstore.rdf rather
than deleting the whole .mozilla directory. Or better yet, modifying
localstore.rdf, as described in bug 120049 
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120049#c8>.

Comment 7

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

WFM since applying that fix.

Comment 8

[Wesley Tanaka]

The fix suggested in bug 120049 works for me.  I'm now running 2002011508.

Marking as a duplicate of bug 120049

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120049 ***