191059 - Configuration warning and newsgroup settings won't stay

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 193638

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Henry Khoo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows ME) Opera 7.0  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.3a build Id: 2002121215

When starting up the mozilla, I got the dialog:




Configuration Warning:




An error occurred reading the startup configuration file. Please contact your 
administration.




SyntaxError: illegal character.




Not only that the dialog was always hided behind the logo, making it difficult 
to see and make people the application hung.\




After setting up my newsgroup account and subscibe, then exits Mozilla. Re-run 
the newsgroups again, was ask to setup again, dammn annoying.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla, will get warning message.


2. Just setup the newsgroup accounts. Exit and re-run Mozilla.


3.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is only a bug if you get this very frequent.
This can happen if Mozilla or the system crashes while Mozilla writes the
pref.js file in your mozilla user profile (see the release notes for the path)

you can do this while mozilla is not running:
a) copy prefs.bak over prefs.js (prefs.bak is an automatic backup)
b) open prejs.js with a testeditor and fix the error
c) run "mozilla -profilemanager" and create a new user profile

-> invalid (no bug)

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193638 ***

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified