1277497 - Master password + Lightning : password prompted several times + all windows disappear

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1180374

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[rooobert]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Build ID: 20160502172042

Steps to reproduce:

* Install Mozilla Thunderbird 45.1.1 on Windows 10 (but the issue is not specific to those versions)
* Configure a master password
* Configure multiple calendars (google agendas in my case)
* Restart Thunderbird

User-Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1
App compilation identifier : 20160526140950

Extensions : Provider for Google Agenda 2.7 + Lightning 4.7.1.1


Actual results:

Issue #1 - When starting Thunderbird, the master password is asked 12 times. (This is approximately the number of calendars I have configured).
(I have found similar issues related to "Lightning" and "Master password". I don't know if this is linked but it may help you : 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177175
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349641
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536140
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584014
)

Issue #2 - One of the password prompt windows looks "fatal". Whatever if I type 12 times my master passwords or if I cancel the 12 windows : when closing one of them (or typing the password) => ALL THUNDERBIRD WINDOWS HIDE INSTANTLY (even the main Window with the emails). Then the "thunderbird.exe" process keeps running in the background and I can't do anything as I have no more accessible GUI !

Issue #3 - At this point, I am forced to kill "thunderbird.exe" as otherwise I can't run it any more neither do anything without a GUI.
This done, when I restart TB and try to go to the options (to remove the master password which seems to cause some troubles), I have a BLANK "Options" WINDOW and I can't change any options. => See the enclosed screenshot.


Expected results:

1 - My master passwords should be asked only once when starting Thunderbird
2 - If I type my master password, then all the accounts and agendas should synchronize and the program should be usable normally.
3 - The "Options" window should not be blank, I should be able to change the options.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/startupmaster/ might help you

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sort of like bug 1180374

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

If it doesn't get resolved when bug 1180374 is done (who knows when), then we can reopen this bug report