139971 - error message on startup / all preferences lost

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193638

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tad Fisher]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020424
BuildID:    200242403

Upon starting up mozilla, an alert message shows beneath the splash screen:

An error occurred reading the startup configuration file. Please contact your
administrator.

line 191: SyntaxError: unterminated string literal.
user_pref("wallet.SchemeValueFileName","10445647

All browser and mail/news settings are subsequently lost.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Uninstall Mozilla completely, deleting registry entries and installation folder.
2.Reinstall Mozilla.
3.Start Mozilla.

Actual Results:  An error occurred reading the startup configuration file.
Please contact your administrator.

line 191: SyntaxError: unterminated string literal.
user_pref("wallet.SchemeValueFileName","10445647

Expected Results:  Start normally, with no error message and retaining previous
settings.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Have you deleted all files in c:\program\mozilla.org after you uninstalled ?
Can you try a new profile with "mozilla -profilemanager" ?

Comment 2

[Tad Fisher]

Problem solved: The prefs.js in my default user directory was truncated, leaving
out part of the filename on the last line. Finishing the entry fixed everything.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

nothing fixed in mozilla -> reopen -> wfm

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193638 ***