Closed
Bug 162597
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
"Configuration Warning" bug (profile recreated, corrupt prefs.js)
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 193638
People
(Reporter: djmaunder, Assigned: Matti)
References
Details
Hi,
Turning off my laptop yesterday afternoon resulted in some weird stuff happening
with Mozilla v1.0.
Whenever I startup Mozilla now I receive the pop up error window:
'Configuration Warning'
'An error occurred reading the startup configuration file. Please contact your
administrator.'
'line 367: SyntaxError: unterminated string literal.
user_pref("timebomb.first_launch_time","10274'
I like the administrator bit... I am the administrator, and got no idea!
De-installed Moz v1.0 nicely, deleted the entire directory structure,
re-installed. Same thing.
De-installed Moz v1.0 nicely, deleted the directory, into regedit, blew away
everything to do with "moz" and "mozilla", downloaded v1.1, installed nicely and
still get the same error.
What it is doing though is every time upon startup Mozilla creates a new
profile. It is not reading the already created one.
So, after five startups, and five pop-up error messages, I would have five newly
created profiles etc, so any previous email in another profile cannot be read.
My work around is to use another PC to read older email, and to fix it on my
laptop will of course be to blow away NT and do a full OS re-install.
How to start this bug rolling?, got no idea. Maybe turning off a computer with
NT, with Moz running. Moz was closed and NT was shutdown when I turned my lapo
off yesterday.
Did a quick search within bugzilla for "367", "10274",
"timebomb.first_launch_time" and got no results.
cheers,
Dave.
Comment 1•22 years ago
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*** Bug 162598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Over to 'Browser-General' as this has nothing to do with building mozilla.
Assignee: seawood → Matti
Component: Build Config → Browser-General
QA Contact: granrose → asa
Assignee | ||
Comment 3•22 years ago
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-> B-g
Your Profile prefs file is corrupt.
You can do this :
a) search the file "prefs.js" in your profile. (the Profile is in the OS user
Directory, see also the release notes for the path)
search the line and try to fix the error.
b) close mozilla and run "mozilla -profilemanager" and create a new profile
Comment 4•22 years ago
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*** Bug 164543 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5•22 years ago
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dupe of bug 161256?
> What it is doing though is every time upon startup Mozilla creates a
> new profile. It is not reading the already created one.
seems to match bug 161256 comment 9
Summary: "Configuration Warning" bug → "Configuration Warning" bug (profile recreated, corrupt prefs.js)
Updated•22 years ago
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Blocks: profile-corrupt
Comment 6•22 years ago
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Additional note on bug.
This bug appears when loading Netscape,version 7.0 as well as the previous version of Netscape, but not Internet Explorer.
I eliminated the bug by completely reinstalling Windows 2000. While this works, it hardly seems to be the ideal solution.
Sam J. Singer
Comment 7•22 years ago
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reporter: can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla (for
example, 1.2beta)? if so, please comment again with details. if not, please
resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.
> a) search the file "prefs.js" in your profile.
> (the Profile is in the OS user Directory, see also the
> release notes for the path)
Deleting prefs.js, and re-running Moz 1.0 and 1.1 fixed both the pop-up error,
along with Mozilla creating multiple profiles. This was some time ago, and I
have not had the problem since. [Apologies for the delay in replying and for
posting this within Netscape 7, and not Mozilla]
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 9•22 years ago
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great. thanks for the response.
however, this should have been resolved as "WORKSFORME" rather than "FIXED"
(because FIXED means a bug mozilla got fixed, which isn't the case here).
reopening to change that...
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Comment 10•22 years ago
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and resolving WORKSFORME...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Assignee | ||
Comment 13•22 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193638 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•22 years ago
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No longer blocks: profile-corrupt
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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