123227 - Error should occur if newsrc file location is invalid

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[David G King]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020123
BuildID:    2002012304

I had created a new profile, and finally got around to deleting my old profile.
However, the newsrc file location was still pointing to the old location (this
isn't the bug I'm talking about here).

When I try to subscribe to newsgroups, after deleting the old profile,
everything seems to work fine (no errors). However when I exit Mozilla, and
restart, the settings have been lost.

An error should be reported if the newsrc file location specified in Preferances
does not exist. That is, the directory doesn't exist, rather than the file not
existing.

Note, my old profile was in d:/users50 and the new profile is in
c:/windows/Application Data/Mozilla

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new Profile
2. Delete old profile
3. Subscribe to newsgroups

Actual Results:  New subscribe settings are lost with no error message.

Expected Results:  Should create a newsrc in the new profile location.

When I first did this, I thing tried to open up the newsgroups, and Mozilla
crashed, hence the Critical setting.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Stack Signature  nsMsgKeySet::GetLastMember 1bf5648a
Trigger Time 2002-02-03 14:25:12
Email Address [e-mail]
URL visited
User Comments
Build ID 2002012309
Product ID MozillaTrunk
Platform
Operating System Win32
Module
Trigger Reason Access violation
Stack Trace
nsMsgKeySet::GetLastMember
[d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\mailnews\base\util\nsMsgKeySet.cpp, line 391]
nsMsgKeySet::SetLastMember
[d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\mailnews\base\util\nsMsgKeySet.cpp, line 410]
nsNNTPNewsgroupList::GetRangeOfArtsToDownload
[d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\mailnews\news\src\nsNNTPNewsgroupList.cpp, line 227]
nsNNTPProtocol::FigureNextChunk
[d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\mailnews\news\src\nsNNTPProtocol.cpp, line 3480]
nsNNTPProtocol::ProcessProtocolState
[d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\mailnews\news\src\nsNNTPProtocol.cpp, line 5184]
nsMsgProtocol::OnDataAvailable
[d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\mailnews\base\util\nsMsgProtocol.cpp, line 265]
nsOnDataAvailableEvent::HandleEvent
[d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\netwerk\base\src\nsStreamListenerProxy.cpp, line 203]
PL_HandleEvent [d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\xpcom\threads\plevent.c, line 591]
PL_ProcessPendingEvents [d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\xpcom\threads\plevent.c,
line 524]
_md_EventReceiverProc [d:\builds\seamonkey\mozilla\xpcom\threads\plevent.c, line
1072]
KERNEL32.DLL + 0x24407 (0xbff94407)
0x00648c16 

Comment 2

[David G King]

I couldn't get newsgroups to work at all for a while. Even after doing a "Remove
Account" and then a "Add Account" in "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings" it
still insisted on putting my newsrc in the old Mozilla Profile directory (which
doesn't exist, I checked).

I ended up manually changing all the wrong path names in prefs.js to point to
the right place to get newsgroups to work again.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Confirming.  We should throw some alert() or something if we are pointing to the
incorrect file.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Steve - I believe this is similar to what you've experienced after manually
copying over profile data.

Comment 5

[rudman]

Yep, sounds like the same thing. But I was able to use "Remove Account" and "Add
Account" successfully---I didn't tweak the prefs.js file.

Thanks for copying me on this.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

downgrading from critical to major - this is still a bug...

Comment 7

[Gilbert Fang]

Mozilla 1.1b nightly build 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020901
I am not sure what is the newsrc file. But I do creat a new profile with the
profile manager and then quit, start with profile manager again to delete the
old profile with "delete files" and continue to run the mail news front end.
Anyway, all  the subscription to the newsgroups  are not lost  when I restart it
again and again. 

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420