137585 - Cannoct access mail from browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130558

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Dodd]

nightly builds starting around 0.9.9 branch through this one<Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020405> including 0.9.9 release.

Solaris *, on an Ultra10.

First time I run a new build every thing is fine.
Exit (select File-> Quit). Check , all processes stopped.

Restart mozilla.

nothing in the "Privacy & Security" preferences tree.
no  "Mail & News" tree at all.
If select preferences from the mail tool,
I get the top level prefs (like Startpage and General prefs) only.

botton left of window has only browser icon.

File menu has:
New -> Message, Folder..., Account..., <seperator>,navigator Window, Blank Page
Open Message
Close
<seperator>
Save As ->
<seperator>
Get New Messages
Get New Messages for ->
<continue as normal>

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Browser Window only has browser icon in lower left.

File menu has:
New -> Navigator Window, Navigator Tab,<seperator>, Blank Page
Open Web Location...
Open File...
Close
<seperator>
Save Page As...
<seperator>
Edit Page
<seperator>
Page Setup...
Print Preview
Print...
<seperator>
<Continue as nowmal>

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There is no Mail Page or Mail Link.
There is no way to access Mail&News from the browser.
There is no way to access the addressbook for browser or mail.

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If I start with -mail, or have the Mail on startup pref set
I can access mail, and every thing works untill close the mail window.

Comment 1

[beanladen]

This happens on an unpatched Solaris. Patches are required, 
read release notes, section 'System Requirements' Solaris.
But beware, our attempt to apply recommended PatchCluster 1
makes all Mozilla builds unusable, see bug #137596.

Comment 2

[Richard Thompson]

Have this problem in FreeBSD running Linux build 2002041510

Comment 3

[Thomas Dodd]

I tried the 04-15 build thius morning and it core dumps.

Played with 04-05 some more.

removing the file chrome/chrome.rdf fixes
the messed up preferences dialog. And the other menus
are back, like File->Send->Page...

All the componenbts are back too.

If I quit and restart, it's broke again, unless I delet
the chrome.rdf file.

Is the possibly a bug in the Classic skin?

Comment 4

[Thomas Dodd]

Tried a few other skins, modern, wood and pinball.
All do the same.

menus hosed if I start with old chrome/chrome.rdf
(in the mozilla install dir, the one in the profile
dir doesn't matter) If it delete it then start mozilla
everything is fine

Comment 5

[Thomas Dodd]

Any one know why? Anyone working on this?
Why doesn't it affect other *nix builds?


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130558 ***