161164 - Mozilla Nightly Forgot All Settings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193638

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Migration, defect)

Description

[Matt Coe]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020804
BuildID:    2002080419

Hey, I just downloaded the nightly at about 1:45 AM GMT-5 when I was working on
a website and discovered that the new build had somehow forgotten /all/ of my
settings. It was installed on top of the old build, and no other nightly's done
this.

Reproducible: Didn't try, don't know how I would.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set some settings in a previous build.
2. Download the nightly for the 2002080419 build.
3. Open up Mozilla and try to do anything.

Actual Results:  All my font settings, and, well, everything reverted to
defaults. My mail profiles have been ignored; I don't want to reinstall them by
hand.

Expected Results:  Was expecting to have everything continue working as it
previously had.

Additional information? Ummm...the new icons are hideous and too Netscape-y. I
liked seeing Mozilla in the corner.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you saw this after you started the new build or later ?
If later : Do you use quicklaunch ?

Comment 2

[Matt Coe]

Basically right after I installed the new build. I was working with the browser
at the time, so I didn't notice until I decided to check my mail. And yes, I am
kind of a Quicklaunch junkie, although I've noticed that Quicklaunch itself
seems a little buggy. I was checking through the release notes for 1.1b and saw
something about there being a known bug in Quicklaunch, and I think I read the
bug report, but it didn't seem related. Did my decision to activate Quicklaunch
on install affect this?

(I've hand-hacked my email settings back in since I reported this bug... I
noticed that prefs.js seems to have been rewritten by the installer.)

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

Looks like a duplicate of bug 155080.  reporter can you confirm?

Comment 4

[Matt Coe]

Bug 155080 looks similar... but this happened to me every time I'd try to start
Mail after I installed the nightly. Kinda like 155080, symptoms are the same but
the trigger's different. That bug says it happened sporadically, mine started
right after install.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

I have seen other reports of this- assigned to various components- I am trying
to find some commonality of process or symptoms. 
check bugs 
Bug 131906
Bug 162290
Bug 147822
Bug 162609
Bug 151751
maybe bug 160779

confirming bug and taking

Comment 6

[Brant Gurganus]

By the definitions on <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html#severity> and
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided>, crashing and dataloss
bugs are of critical or possibly higher severity.  Only changing open bugs to
minimize unnecessary spam.  Keywords to trigger this would be crash, topcrash,
topcrash+, zt4newcrash, dataloss.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 8

[Ralf Bartzke]

Mozilla 1.5 forgets further occasionally all settings incluiding Mail &
Newsgroups Accounts. Bookmarks these meal were not deleted.
A connection with a hardware (Voltage?) error is possible.

To restore the mails, shift the associated directorys to another place, recreate
the accounts and back-shift the directorys.

I think, the algorithm to write the actual browser settings must have a
fundamental error, which leads to corrupt files, if the recording procedure is
not up to end executed. If the browser notices later this, he probably
overwrites simply the files with a standard design. I think, he might never do
this without asking the user.

This critical error exists apparently since Netscape 4.x

Comment 9

[OstGote!]

No response, old bug/version ... like Bug 209301.
IMHO this could be resolved as dupe of Bug 193638.

Comment 10

[OstGote!]

Old version, no further response. Not useful anymore. I resolve it as dupe. Feel
free to reopen it if you disagree.

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