123845 - Crash leads to corrupted profile

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[John Collins]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020415

I upgraded from 0.9.5 to 0.9.8, set some preferences, shut down to copy over
java and Flash plugins, then restarted. I visited the above link and poked one
of the "56K" links to view a video (it's a javascript link). This crashed the
browser, without a talkback and apparently without generating a core file. When
I restarted, it wanted to migrate my old Netscape 4 profile, so I canned it and
got rid of the old profile. On the next restart it claimed I didn't have a
profile, even though it showed the existing one in the list. If I chose that
one, it claimed it couldn't find some directory. So, I let it create a new
profile, and then copied over all the files from my old profile to the new one.
That worked OK.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit the above link, poke one of the 56K video links
2.Assuming you get the crash, restart Mozilla
3.At this point, the profile is lost.

I'm running RedHat 7.1 behind an ISDN router that does NAT between the ISP and
an internal 192.168.x.y network.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Profile Manager

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

> so I canned it and got rid of the old profile

What do you mean canned it *and* got rid of the old profile? What exactly did
you delete and how? (deleting files by hand or with profile mgr UI) In getting
rid of the old profile, you deleted ~/.netscape?

> On the next restart it claimed I didn't have a profile, even though it
> showed the existing one in the list. If I chose that one, it claimed it
> couldn't find some directory.

How did it claim that you didn't have a profile? If it shows up in the list,
then it exists. If the directory for that profile doesn't exist, you'll get the
2nd claim you mention. But both claims has me wondering.

Comment 3

[John Levon]

John, please respond...

Comment 4

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

wfm, as nobody can reproduce it. reopen if you can.

Comment 5

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified WFM. Please reopen if problem still occurs.