166659 - When loading Moz with certain prefs, I get an Alert box without a message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 165199

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Zarco Zwier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.05  [en]
Build Identifier: All (I think, at least mozilla 1.0, 1.1 and recent nightlies. Can't load Mozilla to get build)

When extracting the attached files into a profile directory and loading Mozilla with QL, opening a Navigator results in a Alert box without any information.
When opening Mail/news, I get a window with: "Subject or sender contains:", 2 buttons: a greyed out: "Clear" and "Advanced" (Clicking on this button does nothing) and the startscreen from the prefs.
New mail is received, but can't read it anyway.
Opening the Composer results in a window with at the bottom: "Done loading page". It's possible to type text in the upper part of the window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Extract the archive into a newly created profile directory (use the profile manager).
2.Start Mozilla
3. Use right mouse button on QL icon and choose an option

Comment 1

[Zarco Zwier]

Attachment: F***ed up profile directory

Left out XUL.mfl because the size of the ZIP would excede 300 KB.
If needed, I'll provide it.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 166668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Yuri]

I just installed last night's build over 1.1 release, and i am running into 
pretty much the same problem: when i start up mozilla I get an alert box 
without any text and can't do anything else.  The mail client is also 
completely disfunctional.  I am also running Win2k.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no blocker

A new profile works ? (=wfm unless you can reproduce it with a new profile)

Yuri:  over 1.1 release,
"over" is the problem. Install a new build always in a clean/empty directory)

Comment 5

[Yuri]

I reinstalled 1.1 over the installation of the last night's build (see my 
earlier comment) and it seems to be working fine.  My profile is working fine 
too.  So, i am not sure if this is an issue with preferences, sounds like a 
problem with the build.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no, the build works fine but you must remove the old build.
(you will not loose your preferences/mails etc)

Comment 7

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

The attached profile works fine on my machine.

Comment 8

[Zarco Zwier]

quote: "I just installed last night's build over 1.1 release, and i am running into
pretty much the same problem: when i start up mozilla I get an alert box
without any text and can't do anything else.  The mail client is also
completely disfunctional.  I am also running Win2k."

Have tried to copy back your most recent copy of your mail and news folders, or your bookmarks..??
After a gazilion times deleting my profile (including files), creating a new profile and copying backups of my mail / news folder and my bookmarks.html, suddenly these folder and files started causing Mozilla to behave like it did before. And deleting them did not remove this behaviour...? I'm baffled, what else can I say???
Mozilla ran quite good for some time, since the last time, and suddenly Mozilla hung. After killing the Mozilla.exe proccess, Mozilla started to behave strangly again...

Comment 9

[Zarco Zwier]

"no, the build works fine but you must remove the old build.
(you will not loose your preferences/mails etc)"
I Assume my calendar files won't be lost either ;)
Have tried installing it in a fresh diectory, but have not tried to uninstall Mozilla completely. I will try.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

i dunno about calendart but you can install mozilla in a different directory to
get the same result.

Comment 11

[Zarco Zwier]

Wow, the strangest thing just happened: completely uninstalling / deleting all moz 
program folders (about 4), removes the strange behaviour, but installing moz in a 
fresh (sub)directory does not.
But still, moz should at least see that something is wrong and were the problem
occured (which file, linenumbers), shouldn't it?
And like I said before, all has been working fine for a while until moz 
frooze for more than half an hour, so I killed mozilla.exe. After a reboot or moz
restart, can't remember which, moz started behaving funny again, until now :)

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165199 ***