131351 - XML Parsing Error undefined entity in createProfileWizard.xul

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Luke Morey]

I get this when I start the latest nightly.  I'd tell you the version but I
can't start it :)

  XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
  Location: chrome://communiator/content/profile/createProfileWizard.xul
  Line Number 15, Column 1:

  <window title="&newprofile.title;" orient="vertical"
  ^

Not happening with 2002030908.  But there are no changes to
createProfileWizard.xul that I can see either.

Comment 1

[Luke Morey]

I should have mentioned - I'm using the -P (username) switch.  Each time I start
with a new nightly Moz asks me to set up my profile again, which is why it's
looking at createProfileWizard.xul at all.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

profile manager

Comment 3

[Marcus Augustus Alzona]

I get a similar problem with the builds from the last day or so on Windows XP 
(just tried it with 2002031503).

"
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://communicator/content/profile/profileSelection.xul
Line Number 42, Column 1:

<window
^
"

This isn't using any execution switches.  I have two profiles in my install.

Comment 4

[Marcus Augustus Alzona]

I get a similar problem with the builds from the last day or so on Windows XP 
(just tried it with 2002031503).

"
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://communicator/content/profile/profileSelection.xul
Line Number 42, Column 1:

<window
^
"

This isn't using any execution switches.  I have two profiles in my install.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I just ran into this.  I no "start" or "exit" buttons, no profiles listed.  No
good way to either exit mozilla or start it.

confirming, setting OS to all (I'm seeing this on Linux), upgrading to blocker.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As a note, I have no localizations of any kind installed.  I'm seeing this with
a debug build pulled at "Fri Mar 15 15:00:18 EST 2002"

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To add to the mystery:

1)  I see this in a debug build
2)  I do not see this in another debug build pulled by date for the exact same
    date
3)  I reverted all local changes I had in the build I was seeing this with,
    removed component.reg, rebuilt, restarted.  Same problem.

Something is not getting packaged right....

Comment 8

[Luke Morey]

That seems to be correct - I was using a talkback build.  No problems with the
latest nightly 2002031608 (non-talkback build).

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Here is the best part.  I clobbered and the problem is now gone.  Interestingly
enough, the profile manager now comes up in Modern instead of Classic.  What
could have triggered that, and is it related to this?

Comment 10

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Based on comments looks like this is now worksforme. If not, please reopen...

Comment 11

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified WFM

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um... This "worksforme" because I build and I clobbered?  What about all the
people reporting this with downloaded packaged builds (RPM, installer, zip, all
are represented).  Maybe all the build systems in question just need to clobber,
but if that is the case they should _do_ so.

Comment 13

[Mike Kowalski]

I still see this bug using today's build.

Comment 14

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

This has the profile wizard completely unusable in todays windows commercial 
build 2002-03-19-05-trunk

-No existing profiles are recognized nor can I create a new profile.  further 
testing of app is impossible.

BLOCKER!!!

I only see this on windows. mac builds and linux is fine.

Comment 15

[:deanis74]

The work-around described in bug 131061, namely removing all occurrences of
embed.jar from installed-chrome.txt, should also fix this.  That should
hopefully allow this bug to be downgraded from a blocker.

Comment 16

[Jungshik Shin]

When I came across this problem (no profile is listed and no start/exit
button), I looked up bugzilla and came here. On reading Boris' comment
that the problem had gone after clobbering and rebuilding, I did the
same, but my debug build (I pulled the tree this morning around 2am
Pacfic time) still has the problem. No profile is listed and
there's no start/exit button. When I press 'Manage profile' button
(which is only button available) and 'create profile' button in
the next step, I got another dialog box in which I'm told to
press 'next button' to go ahead, but 'next button' is not there. 

The error messages I'm getting is  different, though. So, I'm not
sure I'm seeing the same problem as reported here.

Javascript error:
  chrome://communicator/content/profile/profileSelection.js line 273:
doSetOKCancel is not defined

Javascript error:
  chrome://communicator/content/profile/createProfileWizard.js line 63:
movetoAlertPosition is not defined

Javascript error:
  chrome://global/content/wizardHandlerSet.js line 114: oParentNextButton
has no properties

WARNING: Weired, we're finalized with a null mJSObject?, file 
E:\Works\moz\mozilla\dom\src\base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp line 750

BTW, I looked into installed-chrome.txt, but there's not a single line
with 'embed.jar' in my case. Anyway, what's the correct bug number
in which that fix was suggested? bug 131061 is about a different issue.

Comment 17

[Adam Lock]

WFM for a fetch and build I did a few hours ago. I fetched, did a dependency
check and built using nmake over my existing build.

Comment 18

[Alec Flett]

I think this is very much related to bug 131016 - string comparisons were broken
at a very low level last night, and it had many repercussions, including making
overlays fail to load. I'm also not seeing a problem, marking WORSKFORME

Comment 19

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I can't reproduce this in the  tree I pulled couple of hours ago. W2K

Comment 20

[Mike Kowalski]

I still see this. I'm on XP.

Comment 21

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

as of the latest depend build on windows this also wfm (build 
2002-03-19-10-trunk)

verified

Comment 22

[Jungshik Shin]

After updating my local tree, I rebuilt it and it also works for me under Win2k.

Comment 23

[David Härdeman]

I'm still seeing this on Windows 2000, I've clobbered my profile directory and 
the mozilla directory prior to downloading and installing:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32.zip
which is currently dated on the server to 20-Mar-2002 11:55

I don't know if it makes any difference but I have Netscape Communicator 4.7X 
installed so it should ask me if I want to convert that profile.

Comment 24

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 131016; this is very likely a duplicate.

Comment 25

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Can anyone reproduce this in a build from 2002-03-21-02 or later?  If not, then
it's probably a duplicate, as comment 24 says.

Comment 26

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Fixed by checkin for bug 131016. Latest nightly doesn't show this problem.

Comment 27

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

I haven't seen this with recent builds including today 2002-03-21-10-trunk