211520 - !.4 rc3 will not start

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Hockey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

I recently tried upgrading to 1.4. After installation it will not start.
Uninstalled and tried earlier releases. rc2 is ok rc3 is not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
started

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

Would you mind giving any useful information?

Did you install into an empty dirctory or over another installation?
Does Mozilla crash on startup?
If yes, if it crashes on xpcom.dll, this is a dupe of bug 205277.

Reporter, if you won't provide us with further information, this bug report must
be marked INVALID.

Comment 2

[Richard Hockey]

I installed over the previous installation (1.4rc1) . After reading the info on
the website regarding xpcom.dll I tried installing it to an empty directory
after uninstalling the previous installation. I had the same result. I get no
indication of what the problem is as it just doesn't start, no message no nothing!
1.4 rc2 works fine.
Cheers
RH

Comment 3

[Berend de Boer]

It seems I have the same problem. I installed rc3 over rc1. No reboot, machine 
kept running. Could not start external applications, so for example PDF files 
would not load in the browser anymore. Next installed the release. Also no 
reboot. Same behaviour as rc3, i.e. external apps could not load.

Rebooted to see if that problem would go away, but now Mozilla would not start 
anymore. Tried various things as making sure directory was removed, removing 
profile directory, removing entries in registry. Simply does not work.

Next installed 1.3, worked fine.

Machine has enough free space (10GB). 224MB memory. Windows 2000, build 2195, 
service pack 2. AMD Duron processor, ~1120MHz.

Mozilla does not even seem to startup. In a command line window you can type 
mozilla.exe and it returns immediately. Proving any flags does not seem to help.

Comment 4

[Federico Tello Gentile]

See bug 211694
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211694
I think it's the same problem. Check it out and mark this as duplicate if you
think it is.

Comment 5

[Alexander Opitz]

Reporter: Does 1.4 final work on win95, if it is installed in a frsh new
directory and with a new profile?
If not, have you mozilla QuickStart enabled?

Comment 6

[Alexander Opitz]

No response since over 1 month marking as wfm. (tested on win95)