234004 - Crash on exit if 'Empty Trash on Exit' is checked.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239473

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Pablo Stern]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040207)

If 'Empty Trash on Exit' is checked for any of my (IMAP) accounts Thunderbird
always crashes on exit.  Switch off 'Empty Trash on Exit' and problem solved.

I tried a completely clean installation, one step at a time, to isolate the
problem.  Happens every time.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch on 'Empty Trash on Exit' for an IMAP account.
2. Close Thunderbird


Actual Results:  
Thunderbird crashes, usual MS error dialog comes up.  Trash not emptied.  Gnash
teeth.

Expected Results:  
Clean closedown, trash emptied.

thunderbird.exe/ntdll.dll/kernel32.dll/xpcom.dll

Comment 1

[Travis Chase]

This bug works works for me in the Nightly Builds of Thunderbird, I always keep
empty trash on exit on.

Comment 2

[Travis Chase]

Wait disregard that, I failed to notice "Imap" I only have a pop account

Comment 3

[Pablo Stern]

I've copied my setup to my home PC (win98) so it is identical to my work PC with
this problem, and the 'Empty Trash on Exit' works fine.  Equally a colleague
with a machine apparently the same as my XP one does not have the problem.

There seem to have been one or two of these 'empty trash' bugs in Mozilla - like
bug 227561 - which seem to be tricky to reproduce.

Comment 4

[Pablo Stern]

This bug has now gone away on the XP machine which had it, although I have made
no changes to preferences, account settings etc.  If no-one else has had this
problem  I guess it should be killed.

Comment 5

[Travis Chase]

Marking worksforme, if it comes back we can always re-open

Comment 6

[Pablo Stern]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Marking worksforme, if it comes back we can always re-open

I've just found how to recreate the problem reliably.  If a folder is deleted,
so the Trash folder contains a folder, then the crash on exit happens.  This
seems to be reliably reproducible.  I'm still using Thunderbird 0.5, Windows XP.

Can we re-open this bug? (unless it has been fixed in the nightlies already of
course).

Comment 7

[Pepijn Schmitz]

I can confirm this bug in Thunderbird 0.5, build 20040207! Same thing happens to
me: there's a folder in my trash folder on my IMAP account; Thunderbird is set
to empty trash on exit; I close Thunderbird; crash! This is on Windows 98 SE.

If it helps at all, this is what Windows reports when Thunderbird crashes:

THUNDERBIRD caused an invalid page fault in
module MAIL.DLL at 018f:014f6c95.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=018f EIP=014f6c95 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=1004124e SS=0197 ESP=0066e674 EBP=0066e72c
ECX=0066e708 DS=0197 ESI=1004121c FS=2987
EDX=0066e708 ES=0197 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 ff 51 34 57 8d 8d 70 ff ff ff ff 75 dc ff 
Stack dump:
00000000 0066e708 00000000 1004121c 80000000 01eef4f8 01eef4f8 10043eb8 00000000
0000002b 0000003f 70616d69 702f2f3a 00000000 100445e8 020f2200 

I also can't delete the folder in my trash folder. When I select 'emtpy trash',
Thunderbird asks me for confirmation for deleting the folder. When I confirm,
the folder dissappears from the trash folder, so it seems to work, but next time
I start Thunderbird, it's back!

One factor which may be of importance: the IMAP server I talk to is run by
myself; it's courier-imap, I can't find a version number but it's about three
years old.

This is no big deal for me, but I do think it should be fixed, and therefore
this bug should be reopened! I'm willing to work with you guys to try and
reproduce / debug this problem.

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239473 ***