166297 - I upgraded to 1.1 and now get an error message when starting the program. My preferences are not saved.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: LDAP Integration, defect)

Description

[Christian Bayer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

Upon opening Mozilla I get a dialog window.

line341: SyntaxError user_pref('wallet.caveat,"

I uninstalled 1.1 and reinstalled 1.0 hoping it would solve the problem. It did
not. Changes made to preferences are not saved and "Mail & Newsgroups" does not
find my settings and mail. My bookmarks in my Personal Toolbar Folder are fine
however. Please let me know where look to repair this, I need my old email.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:





I have no way to reproduce this.

Comment 1

[Reiner Schug]

Also happened to me once.

If you don't have a backup:
- Quit Mozilla.
- Rename this file: \WINNT\Profiles\<user>\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profile>\<random>.slt\prefs.js

- Start & Quit Mozilla. (fresh prefs.js will be created)
- Now you could try to repair the corrupted prefs.js in a text editor

Comment 2

[Reiner Schug]

Sorry, I totally forgot, there is also a prefs.bak.
-> Replace the corrupted prefs.js with prefs.bak

Comment 3

[yulian chang]

Esther, Could you take a look of this bug? 

Comment 4

[Christian Bayer]

The solution to fixing this problem is below.  Thanks for your original replies.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166297

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

Upon opening Mozilla I get a dialog window.

line341: SyntaxError user_pref('wallet.caveat,"

I uninstalled 1.1 and reinstalled 1.0 hoping it would solve the problem. It did
not. Changes made to preferences are not saved and "Mail & Newsgroups" does not
find my settings and mail. My bookmarks in my Personal Toolbar Folder are fine
however.

Mozilla was looking in the
[HDD]:\Program Files\mozilla\Profiles\username\t866u20c.slt for the prefs.js (I
did not accept the default installation path during setup and changed it.)

The correct version of the file was in
[HDD]:\WINNT\Profiles\username\Application
Data\mozilla\Profiles\username\t866u20c.slt

Additionally, I changed user_pref('wallet.caveat," to user_pref('wallet.caveat') .

I hope this helps. 

Comment 5

[Robert Morris]

Should we change the status of this (aging) bug? I'm not quite sure if the
reporter is satisfied with the solution or if he still wants to keep it opened.

Comment 6

[Robert Morris]

Resolving bug; no response, but reporter appears to seem satisfied.