184091 - Clicking on send email or reply to email hangs Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[William Springer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

If I try to send an email, by clicking create a new message or reply, either the
icon or from the drop-down, Mozilla immediately hangs and I have to
control-alt-delete and shut it down.

This problem started this morning; I tried restarting Mozilla, restarting my
computer, and restarting Mozilla without using the password manager, with no change.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load Mozilla
2. Click Create a New Message
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla hangs

Expected Results:  
Opened a new message

This is the default install of Mozilla 1.2

Comment 1

[Martin]

Same for me with Mozilla 1.2.1 on Win2k.
It worked fine from 2002/12/03 until 2002/12/06.
Since this morning, it crashes.
I can not remember to have changed any prefs
since 2002/12/04. Anyway, below you can find a
diff of prefs.js to a backup from 2002/12/03.

Workaround for me:
Switched back to 1.1

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load Mozilla
2. Open Mail
3. Open any mail
4. Click on any Reply-Button

Or: Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load Mozilla
2. Open Mail
3. Open Edit | Mail & News account settings

DIFF FROM prefs.js today (2002/12/08, crash version) to last backup (2002/12/03)
19c19
< user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine",
"engine://C%3A%5CProgramme%5Cmozilla.org%5CMozilla_1.2.1%5Csearchplugins%5Cgoogle.src");
---
> user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine",
"engine://C%3A%5CProgramme%5Cmozilla.org%5CMozilla_12%5Csearchplugins%5Cgoogle.src");
23c23
< user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "file:///d:/");
---
> user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.heise.de/");
94a95
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126");
98c99
< user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "windows-1250, ISO-8859-2,
gb18030, Shift_JIS, windows-1252");
---
> user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "ISO-8859-2, gb18030, Shift_JIS,
windows-1252, Big5");
100c101
< user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.mailview.cache", "windows-1254, EUC-KR, Big5,
windows-1252, windows-1250");
---
> user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.mailview.cache", "EUC-KR, Big5, windows-1252,
windows-1250, ISO-8859-2");
177c178
< user_pref("mail.identity.id3.smtpServer", "smtp1");
---
> user_pref("mail.identity.id3.smtpServer", "smtp3");
187c188
< user_pref("mail.server.server1.capability", 4641);
---
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.capability", 545);
201,202c202,204
< user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.personal",
"\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\"");
< user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.public",
"\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\"");
---
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.other_users", "");
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.personal",
"\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\"");
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.public",
"\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\"");
227a230
> user_pref("mail.server.server4.namespace.other_users", "");
242c245,249
< user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp1");
---
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.hostname", "xxx.xxx.xxx");
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp2.username", "xxx");
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp3.hostname", "xxx.xxx.xxx");
> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp3.username", "xxx");
> user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp3,smtp1,smtp2");

Comment 2

[William Springer]

Last night Mozilla suddenly started letting me send emails again, but I have no
idea why.  I didn't do anything I didn't try before.

BTW, before someone asks: I have 192 MB RAM and over 1 gig hard drive space free.

Comment 3

[Martin]

What is this? 
"Me too".
After reading William Springers additional comment I tried again.
An it works again.

--- aside
BERNARDO
    'Tis here!
HORATIO
    'Tis here!
MARCELLUS
    'Tis gone!
(from William Shakespeare,
      "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", 
      Act 1, Scene 1 ).
---

Hmhm. Should we trust it?

Once again a diff:
18c18
< user_pref("browser.history.last_page_visited", "file:///d:/");
---
> user_pref("browser.history.last_page_visited", "http://www.heise.de/");
201,202c201,202
< user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.personal",
"\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\"");
< user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.public",
"\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\"");
---
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.personal",
"\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\",\"INBOX.\"");
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.namespace.public",
"\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\",\"shared.\"");
268,269d267
< user_pref("network.cookie.lifetime.behavior", 1);
< user_pref("network.cookie.lifetime.enabled", true);

Note that there seems to be a problem with those 
IMAP pref lines. Mozilla continues to add the same 
namespace information again and again.

Comment 4

[William Springer]

This bug may be related to another one; after my email started working again, I
regained the ability to use control-F without the browser freezing.

Comment 5

[Gert Lutter]

Don't know if it's related to this particular bug... When I try to send e-mail
(either by clicking Send or pressing ctrl+enter) latest trunk build 2002120908
hangs with 100% CPU usage (using Win2k).

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Please check if this is a dupe of bug 168516.

pi

Comment 7

[William Springer]

I don't think so; the description of bug 168516 says that Mozilla hangs while
sending mail, but with this bug you can't even open an email window to type your
message.

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

a corrupted XUL.mfl can cause a hang/freeze when attempting to do anything that
opens a new window of any kind. Bug 169777
Please check if renaming or deleting XUL.mfl (in your profile dir) change this bug

Comment 9

[Bron]

I had the problem with mozilla with 1.2.1 chewing up CPU and memory until I
killed it (on WinXP sp1). This happened when I selected a message in the Inbox
and clicked the Reply button.

After deleting XUL.mfl and restarting MailNews, I could click on Reply and
successfully open a message window without the memory eating loop.

Maybe related to Bug 169777

Comment 10

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

It might well be that this bug here and bug 169777 anre fixed by bug 188744.

pi

Comment 11

[Andrew Hagen]

Reporter, please download and install a current nightly trunk build. Are you
still seeing this problem?

Comment 12

[Martin]

Andrew,

I haven't even seen this bug again with 1.2.1, even so, I use it on a daily basis.
It made my day back then and vanished a couple of days later (see above).
Corruption of a file seems to be a plausible explantaion IMHO.
Probably reinstalling would have then caused the bug to vanish.

Even so, I can not really resolve anything of this,
I would be fine with changing status to WORKSFORME.

Comment 13

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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

Comment 14

[Vedran Miletic]

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