179091 - mozilla broken

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144027

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Möller]

did an update 20021026 to 20021106. That's the results:

- only one application can run (and works ok), any second one stucks, for xmple
  start browser -> no mail , no composer and vice versa
- only way to change apps is setting the start app in preferences
- deleting compreg.dat -> new one is created, no change
- with browser always one error in sidebar
  tries to download my bookmarks, never ending
- uninstall, install former version -> no success
- uninstall, del mozilla-dir, install -> no success 
- same things with boots in between -> no success

anyone some idea what to do now?
what the hell is this! 
Hey, one thing is really surprising: download works great ;-) so it is not #171441

tried with newer buid 2002110804
-> No change

deleted all entries in registry
-> no change

its no fun anymore, because it looks like forget mozilla or reinstall windows
:-( . Thats why I call it major. I'd like to call it critical, but not all users
seem to have the problem.

Comment 1

[Wesha]

Have you tried creating a new profile?

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

Maybe this is similar to bug 144027 ?
Do you have third party themes installed? Deleting them / the "chrome" folder in
your profile directory might help...

Comment 3

[Peter Möller]

puuh, this was a narrow path. I saw myself already going away from mozilla,
because I need tools, that do work ;-)

Thx Wesha and Andreas for the perfect help. The problem was solved by deleting
the chrome directory in the profile directory.

Ok, now lets go to the base. I had installed three addons, before problems started:
- Orbit 3+1
- calendar
- mycroft

Meanwhile the problem had got worse. Sometimes I could not even start one
mozilla-app. I did see the process with rising amount of memory-used. Sudden
stop at need of 14MB and this it was.

Is this the price of deleting compreg.dat with every setup? Then it is, indeed,
a high price. Without support here, I will never be able to run Mozilla anymore.
People will not accept this, nore do I.

Comment 4

[Peter Möller]

little addition:
I've read #144027. To me its the same like this one. Its ok to call this a dup. 

Still one question: i used newest orbit 3+1 (2002-10-31, the one where You had
to do a correction in the zip-file) Is it a problem of the skin, having old
profile data or of mozilla, not updating the profile? 

Comment 5

[Andreas Kunz]

If you think this is a dup of 144027, then feel free to resolve it that way.
Thanks.

If you "need tools, that do work" then please do not use Mozilla nightlies.
Better use stable releases like the upcoming 1.2 or 1.0.2. 
Or even better use distributions meant for end-users like Netscape 7.0.
Mozilla.org only "provides binaries for testing and feedback" as you can read on
the home page. And they mean it. Of course you *may* use it for your everyday
work (as I do), but then please do not complain if you experience problems.

I do not understand what you mean by "deleting compreg.dat with every setup".
You may mail to my private e-mail adress if you like help on this (of course in
german).

You ask whose fault it was... it's simply that Mozilla is developing and old
themes cannot provide support for newly added functions. That causes problems
and makes necessary that you update the third party profiles once in a while.

Comment 6

[Peter Möller]

Hi Andreas,

as not to fill just the database, this answer is the last in bugzilla, lateron
we do it by eMail, if necessary ;-)

- resolved it as dup
- of course, I'm willing to help the product by testing nightlies, my experience 
  with this approach is good :-) , just never had such a dead end
- compreg.dat is a hint pointing towards #171441. Deleting it means loosing
  some informations about 'thirdparty'-components. Just are not sure, what is
  third-party in this context.
- the used theme orbit 3+1 was of date 20023110 and marked as updated for 
  mozilla V1.2 . So I think, files should have been ok.

if You see my questions different now, feel free to answer me via eMail :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144027 ***

Comment 7

[Peter Möller]

Hi Andreas,

as not to fill just the database, this answer is the last in bugzilla, lateron
we do it by eMail, if necessary ;-)

- resolved it as dup
- of course, I'm willing to help the product by testing nightlies, my experience 
  with this approach is good :-) , just never had such a dead end
- compreg.dat is a hint pointing towards #171441. Deleting it means loosing
  some informations about 'thirdparty'-components. Just are not sure, what is
  third-party in this context.
- the used theme orbit 3+1 was of date 20023110 and marked as updated for 
  mozilla V1.2 . So I think, files should have been ok.

if You see my questions different now, feel free to answer me via eMail :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144027 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144027 ***