152757 - Endless loop of "Mozilla's" opened on taskbar - deleted all email

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Madeleine]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

I double clicked on Mozilla icon while computer booting up (startup icons
weren't done in lower right corner of screen).  Taskbar became so filled with
Mozilla windows, it had up/down arrows to navigate it.  I did CTRL/ALT/DEL and
ended Mozilla.  It continued to open windows.  I did Ctrl/Alt/Del again.  Then
clicked "end task".  Mouse moved cursor, but did nothing.  Keyboard froze.  Had
to manually shut down computer.  When I rebooted, all the email I ever did on
Mozilla was gone.  I had to set up a whole new email account.  

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start computer
2.While system tray icons appearing, double click on Mozilla icon
3.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have said, "Hey idiot, wait till I'm done
booting up!"

My computer is set up so that a single click will boot up programs.
My mouse/keyboard are connected through a 4-port Belkin switch.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Profile Manager...

Comment 2

[Arn Burkhoff]

I've encountered this bug about 8 times in the past few months, most recently 
yesterday, Aug 13, 2002. I do not lose my e-mail but it creates thousands of 
randomly named .XUL files in my /Windows/Temp folder. I must CTL/ALT/DELETE to 
kill Mozilla. My system currently is Win 98 (first edition) using Mozilla 
nightly from 20020806. 

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

similar reports in bug 170496 and bug 176294.
Is this something that happens when quicklaunch is enabled?

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

correction:
There are two issues here. I meant this bug is similar to 170496 / 176294 APART
from the email issue. Which may or may not have been solved, separatly from the
launching loop problem

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

Reporter: How did you conclude that all your email was gone?
Were the files actually missing in the Mail folder on disk?
Or were they just not visible/account *seemingly* missing when you opened mail?

If the files were still on disk, this was likely "only" a corruption of prefs.js
- at some locateion before the mail accounts are listed.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

Reporter,

Please try with a more recent nightly build to see if the original problem still
occurs.  The other bugs mentioned here are resolved. 
Regarding the email- prefs.js problem- see bug 147822- where is your profile
data stored?

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm