Closed Bug 187865 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Mozilla 1.1 crashes if I try to access the preferences menu or mail/news manu

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(Core :: XUL, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
critical

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

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(Reporter: pisz, Assigned: bugs)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 I am using Mozilla 1.1 in Mandrake 9.0. Mozilla worked great for a while, preferences, mail and news menu. One day that changed, if I tried to enter the preferences menu, all of mozilla 1.1 windows disappear. If I try to access the mail/news menu, the same thing happens, Mozilla crahes/closes. My font size preferences seem to be changed back to default. My modern theme stayed the same. I have no access to preferences manu or the mail and newsgroups manu. Composer window does still work. The broweser still seems to work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Mozilla 2.Click on the preferences button in the edit menu or the mail & newsgourps button 3. Actual Results: All mozilla 1.1 windows close Expected Results: Open the preferences window or the mail & newsgroups window. The problem is very annoying as I lost my preferences and the fonts appear to small, I have lost the ability to set preferences and access the mail and Newsgourps. The problem happened one day, Mozilla was wonderfull before this happened, mail, newsgourps and preferences worked fine.
What happens if you rename your XUL.mfasl file (say to XUL.mfasl.buggy)? Does that help? If so, please zip up the file and attach it to this bug using http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=187865&action=enter
Renaming this file by adding .buggy to it restored mozilla and all preferences. Renaming this file seemed to solve the problem.
mmm... fastload bugs...
Component: Preferences → XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL
QA Contact: sairuh → jrgm
Thanks for attaching that file. However, I don't see anything obviously wrong with the format, although maybe I need to dig deeper to find what is wrong. Since you're crashing, do you get a talkback report generated? [try moving XUL.mfasl.buggy back in place to trigger the crash again]. Or is talkback not installed with this build?
Blocks: FastLoadMeta
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I, too, encountered this bug today after adding email accounts to Mozilla 1.2.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021230) running under Gentoo 1.4_rc1 and KDE 3.1_rc5. The Window did not close, but simply "froze" when I selected "preferences" from the "Edit" menu. Ctrl+Alt+Esc was able to kill the Mozilla Windows, but mozila.bin processes had to be killed via KDE System Guard. Renaming XUL.mfast to XUL.mfast.buggy also corrected the problem for me. Let me know if you also want my old XUL.mfast file as I have saved it and will be happy to provide it if needed.
No longer blocks: FastLoadMeta
Yes, if you could (g)zip up the fastload file and either attach it here, or email it to <jrgm@netscape.com> that would be much appreciated. By the way, comment #5 [the hang] is essentially a duplicate of bug 169777 (and friends), although I had left this one open and separate because (a) I was wondering if I could get a crash stack for this example (usually it's a hang, not a crash), and (b) this is happening with 1.1 and I was wondering if there are differences between what is happening in an older release [many (but not all) of the other reports of fastload problems are with 1.2x and up].
Blocks: FastLoadMeta
I just experienced the same problem with: Mozilla 1.2.1 for RedHat 8 - vanilla version Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202 (it doesn't seem to include talkback) Installed modules: mozilla-mail-1.2.1-0_rh8 mozilla-nspr-1.2.1-0_rh8 mozilla-nss-1.2.1-0_rh8 mozilla-psm-1.2.1-0_rh8 mozilla-1.2.1-0_rh8 I had subscribed to a number of newsgroups on 2 servers. All worked fine, but the next time I started the system, it behaved as described by the others: freeze on calling preferences or the mail-news windows. Renaming XUL.mfast worked (thanks!). Should I send my XUL.mfast.buggy too?
No, thanks. I don't need to see a fastload file for 1.2.1 builds. I am interested if people can reproduce this in builds after Jan 17th, in which case I would like to see the fastload file. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169777 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
(Removing 'Blocks: bug 134576', to clear things up there.)
No longer blocks: FastLoadMeta
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL → XUL
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets
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