226777 - Will not startup if Thunderbird is running

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dennis G. Wicks]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.11 (Windows NT 5.0; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

If Thunderbird is U&R Firebird will not start up. Screen opens briefly, just a 
flash. I don't see any messages. I have removed and reinstalled both products 
several times. Big PITA and no joy! I deleted everything in the system that that 
appeared to have any connection to either package.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
2. Start Firebird
3. Firebird fails

Actual Results:  
Firebird fails to start.

Expected Results:  
Started

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

weird! I have not experienced anything like this. I assume that firebird works
when thunderbird is installed but not running? Did this start happening with
recent builds? Or have you only just installed thunderbird?

Comment 2

[Dennis G. Wicks]

This has been happening since I first downloaded these two programs
back around the first of October, 2003.

BTW, it works both ways. First one started works, the second one
won't start up.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 229021 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Adam Becevello]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040128
Firebird/0.8.0+

Its been a while since anyone has commented here.
This bug certainly sounds weird.

Dennis: Can you try new builds of both Firebird and Thunderbird to see if this
has been fixed since your last comment and then report back?  Make sure you
install them into separate and empty directories.

Firebird: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-trunk/
Thunderbird:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2004-01-28-trunk/

Comment 5

[Adam Becevello]

There is a companion bug report to this one by the same reporter.  Bug 226780
was filed and is basically the exact same except it says that Thunderbird will
not start if Firebird is running (the opposite of this bug).

Comment 6

[Travis Chase]

I have not ever had a problem running Thunderbird and Firebird at the same time

Comment 7

[Travis Chase]

*** Bug 226780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[David]

I can confirm this on OS/2 using the GCC compiled binaries available from the
Mozilla.org contributed builds site. If I have ThunderBird 0.4 open and try to
start Firefox 0.8, Firefox hangs without displaying anything. CPU usage goes to
100% and stays there. Ctrl-Clicking on the Window widget in WarpCenter (used to
list and kill processes in OS/2) shows an entry "Firefox (title)" which can be
killed.

If I have Firefox open and try to start Thunderbird, I get:
   SYS3175
   A program generated an access violation at 1e4b1382
   LIBC04.DLL 0001:00001382.

Happens regardless of whether I have separate copies of the two DLLs in each
application's own directory, or single copies located on OS/2's LIBPATH.

Both are using recently downloaded builds unzipped into separate folders
\Thunderbird and \Firefox).

Did not experience the same problem using Phoenix 0.3 and Thunderbird 0.3.

Comment 9

[Dennis G. Wicks]

Greetings;

I got the "latest" versions of T-bird and F-bird and installed
them and the problem has disappeared.

I installed a couple different versions of each before though,
and the problem was still there.

Comment 10

[Tadeu "Tcmjr"Junior]

Using
 - FireFox (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040307 Firefox/0.8.0+)
 - Thunderbird (Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (20040305))

No problem at all.

Marking this as WFM