179742 - System crash may cause Preferences window to freeze Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Ambrose Li]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

After an unclean system crash (e.g., power failure), the .mozilla directory may
contain corrupted files in such a way that Mozilla can start up (after manually
removing the "lock" file), but bringing up the Preferences window cause Mozilla
to freeze. It seems that after a while, Mozilla will eventually exit with status
255.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:




After deleting history.*, localstore.rdf, XUL.mfasl, 2933937*, and panacea.dat,
Mozilla is able to start up again in a state where the Prefences window will not
hang the browser, but the managed passwords are also lost. I don't know which
combination of corrupted files is causing the freeze.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169777 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup