220864 - Mozilla doesn't exit gracefully upon termination signal

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alonzo Gariepy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030228
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030228

Logging out of KDE/Gnome forces all apps to exit.  Well behaved apps like Xchat
remember at least that they were open and window position/size.  Mozilla should
reopen in the right position (and if so configured show the last page visited).
Before it exits it should save bookmarks and whatever else it would normally do
on exiting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla Browser
2. Bookmark a page
3. Logout of KDE or Gnome

Actual Results:  
Bookmarked page is not found in the bookmarks file.

Expected Results:  
It should have exited nicely, saving the bookmarks to disk.

Comment 1

[Matt Fago]

I've found that Mozilla doesn't save bookmarks or the status of read messages
etc until exit. This implies that any new bookmarks etc are _LOST_ if Mozilla
crashes or is forced to exit for any reason (such as logging out of KDE with
Mozilla open). This is an instance of data loss, and as such IMHO should be
considered serious.

I'm running into this on v1.5

Is this really a widespread bug, or is there a problem with corruption of some
preference file? Did I miss a dupe?

This needs to be confirmed with a pristine install to rule out preference file
issues. Someone also should track down exactly what information is not being
saved. I'll see how much of this I can do, but I wanted to enter this comment first.

I'm changing the summary slightly.

Comment 2

[Matt Fago]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131105 ***

Comment 3

[Alonzo Gariepy]

This is not the same as not saving bookmarks when mozilla crashes.  It should
exit gracefully when it receives a termination signal.

Comment 4

[Matt Fago]

Ok, this bug would then be about remembering window placement and sizing (etc),
rather than bookmarks (which is bug 131105). Changing summary again.

Oddly enough, for me, the only time that Moz remembers the window positions is
when I logout of KDE _without_ first quitting Mozilla.

Comment 5

[Mike Fedyk]

With this in the netscape.public.mozilla.unix it seems to be a more generic
problem on unix...

Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I'm working on a Linux desktop with VNC, and one thing I've thought about is
that during server shutdown, it sends out signal 15 (TERM), and then later
signal 9 (KILL).
>
> I haven't done any testing, but I'd think that messages being composed would
be saved in drafts and similair actions performed to keep data from being lost.
>
> Is there any documentation on this?

Andrew Schultz <[e-mail]>:
Not that I know of.  But the answer is "no".  On signal 15, Mozilla bails. 

Comment 6

[Misak Khachatryan]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040301 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre
Works as expected. Reopen if i miss something. Fedora 9 beta, KDE 4