177371 - no windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167663

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Brad Schrick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier: 1.2 beta -- window won't render, can't see anything, including this info

windows show in windows menu, but not on screen



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start up
2.no browser windows
3.try every way to open browser window

Actual Results:  
no browser windows

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 177370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

How did you install?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Please close mozilla and delete the file "localstore.rdf"  in your profile.
Does it work now ?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mail from reporter:

1.2b installer, then 1.2 overnight build copy folder to Applications folder
------------------------------------------

This is just what the release notes say _not_ to do... please consider deleting
it all and reinstalling properly...

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

The original report says "can't see anything, including this info".
It sounds like a window is there, but just not very visible?

Possible duplicate of bug 167663, where the window on Mac OS-X can get pixel thin.
If it's a dup, deleting localstore.rdf in the profile directory is a workaround,
like comment 3 indicates.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

via mail :

-- yes, that brought the windows back.  Thanks!

-- so now I know:

 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029

-- this is Mac OS X 10.2.1 Jaguar, btw, on an iBook 500MHz

-- this hasn't happened on my G4, likewise 10.2.1

-- the windows actually did 'appear' as very short vertical white lines, one
pixel wide, about 30 or 40 pixels high

-- b.rad

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167663 ***