1434951 - Massive Xpcshell and Mozmill test failure on 2018-02-01

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Many failing tests and WaltS48 reports on IRC:

Every pane is blank and chat icon disabled. Couldn't open the Error Console.
Folder, Thread, and Message panes are empty, the Chat icon is disabled.

@WaltS48, this is what you reported, we'll look into it.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

M-C last good: 17ade9f88b6ed2232be51bc02c6860562c
M-C first bad: 5201997e7e01500176ce7d6e790593468f
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=17ade9f88b6ed2232be51bc02c6860562c&tochange=5201997e7e01500176ce7d6e790593468f

Looking at a log
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/2018/02/2018-02-01-03-02-01-comm-central/comm-central_win7_ix_test-mozmill-bm110-tests1-windows-build171.txt.gz
I see heaps of
  Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getIntPref]
So that would suggest that the bustage comes from bug 1423840.

There are also quite a few of
  TypeError: mailWindow.gFolderDisplay is null

I'll try a local build first.

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Back-out of bug 1423840 fixes the main window.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Attachment: 1434951-pref-syntax.patch

One small syntax error in the pref file caused this havoc. Spotted by Aceman!

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/255415033526
fix invalid pref syntax (spotted by aceman). rs=bustage-fix

Comment 6

[Flaburgan]

Hi everyone. My thunderbird daily is stuck in that state. About allows me to "Restart to update thunderbird" but it doesn't update it, and restart in the exact same state (with the button to update still there). Should I remove it and manually install the last daily build or is there a way I can update?

Comment 7

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Please uninstall the broken version manually and then install today's build (compiling now, assuming there won't be a build failure) or revert to the previous day, 2018-01-31 which should then update to today's build.