Closed
Bug 252127
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
latest nightly build is completely unusable after install
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
Thunderbird0.8
People
(Reporter: halge, Assigned: benjamin)
References
Details
(Keywords: fixed-aviary1.0, smoketest)
Attachments
(2 files)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040716 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040716 I downloaded the nightly build from: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2004-07-19-04-0.8/ and took thunderbirdsetup.exe I installed it and fired it up and it comes up blank. I have no account, mailboxes, etc. (thought it appears they are still on disk). If I go to tools/account-settings or tools/options, nothing shows up. Actually, none of the buttons do anything, except for "write" which give an error and the help button. Completely brain dead. I was running a nightly build from a few days ago and all was well five minutes before the install. Things only stopped working after the install. I've tried going back to the 0.7.2 release, but this doesn't work either. I can do the "about thunderbird" to see the 0.7.2 is installed, but that is about it. One thing I noticed is that it appears that mozilla was trying to shutdown. It asked me if it could close tabs. Is this normal during an install? I don't remember. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary during this install that I can think of. Seems we have an install bug, but can anyone tell me what I need to change to get it working again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install the nightly build 2. 3. Actual Results: thunderbird doesn't respond and all my accounts and settings are gone. Expected Results: Expected it to work as usual.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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Mostly likely a dupe of the Firefox smoketest blocker: Bug #252063
Comment 2•20 years ago
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No this isn't a dupe. I just downloaded a tinderbox build that includes the fix and Thunderbird still does not startup.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: smoketest
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird0.8
Comment 3•20 years ago
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this is benjamin's regression. Non installer builds work fine FYI.
Assignee: mscott → bsmedberg
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Comment 4•20 years ago
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bug 251906 seems to be covering this same problem for Firefox. The tree should stay closed until this is really fixed.
Comment 5•20 years ago
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Have a look at bsmedberg's checkin from 2004-07-19 06:43, which adjusts the Firefox installer to changes he made earlier (2004-07-19 06:03): http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?branch=&date=explicit&mindate=2004-07-19+06%3A43&maxdate=2004-07-19+06%3A43 I bet we need to port that to mail/installer/windows/: http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviarybranch/source/mail/installer/windows/
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Comment 6•20 years ago
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I am continuing to make changes that will affect both apps installer. I should have all the firefox changes done in a couple hours, and can then turn my attention back to the thunderbird issues, which are slightly more involved due to the repackaging scripts.
Comment 7•20 years ago
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*** Bug 252175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8•20 years ago
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bsmedberg, can I ask why we started landing this before all of it was done and ready? It seems pretty dangerous to intentionally say we are going to break thunderbird and firefox until we can finish the work.... At the very least some formal notification saying the build won't be useable for several days should have gone out.
Comment 9•20 years ago
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*** Bug 252177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10•20 years ago
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I downloaded the installer build the tinderbox machine downloaded and the app now comes up. However blocker bugs: Bug #251628, Bug #251626 are still present which cause DTD errors in extensions, themes and profile dialogs. I also see DTD errors in the attachments panel under Options / Attachments. We're getting closer though!
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Comment 11•20 years ago
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This is now fixed. Please note that I did not intentionally break either Firefox or Thunderbird; as we discussed at the l10n meeting the locale changes were likely to cause oddball regressions (and still are, as the thunderbird centralization is not done yet). I spent 6+ hours figuring out why the repackaging script wasn't doing what it was supposed to, but I needed to keep landing the firefox changes, or else the same kinds of regressions were going to keep happening. I built linux thunderbird several times during this process to make sure that it would launch, but it takes 4+ hours to build a win32 installer to test the repackaging scripts.
Comment 12•20 years ago
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Sorry to say, but it is still broken here. I still have the big bad list of xul errors after trying to launch a freshly made build. I get your checkin, and still nothing. I had to go back to my last working build, made on 18 july. Note: I am using Linux Fedora 2
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Comment 13•20 years ago
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mozjf: make sure that you don't have <objdir>/toolkit/content/contents/contents.rdf contents-platform.rdf contents-region.rdf The build system won't clean these files automatically, and since I have changed the contents-platform.rdf file this can be causing the many odd chrome errors.
Comment 14•20 years ago
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I just downloaded today's 7-20 nightly. The installer installs correctly but when it launches the app, chrome never appears. The process remains in memory. Anyone else seeing this? I downloaded this build: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-0.8/ThunderbirdSetup.exe
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Comment 15•20 years ago
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I just corrected two more entries in the en-US-mail manifest.
Comment 16•20 years ago
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In answer to comment #13 : I wipe my sources after using them, and then, I unpack a backup. So, I always use clean sources before building.
Comment 17•20 years ago
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I just downloaded the tinderbox generated build that has all of the latest changes and it still hangs on startup. No chrome comes up. The process is running though. If I try to force the profile manager up I get a chrome dialog with a DTD error that says <dialog
Comment 18•20 years ago
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officially re-opening per my comment in c#17
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
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Comment 19•20 years ago
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Some people still have an old copy of toolkit/content/contents-platform.rdf in their build tree, which can cause CVS conflicts if you're using a srcdir build and can cause silent malfunction if you're using an objdir build. I think that this problem is affecting the patrocles tinderbox (an empty version of this file is appearing in the installer archives). This problem can affect both thunderbird and firefox builds. I cannot find any automated way to fix it. I'm poking myk/leaf to see if I can get the tinderboxen fixed up. I just built a thunderbird installer with an up-to-date branch which seems to work fine. Can we re-open the branch?
Comment 20•20 years ago
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I toasted the entire toolkit directory Sunday night to make the patrocles build go green. I'll do it again to see if that helps.
Comment 21•20 years ago
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I just downloaded the build off of patrocles after I nuked mozilla\toolkit again. The build now launches! -ProfileManager works. So do the theme and extension dialogs! Woo hooo.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Comment 22•20 years ago
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You're lucky :p On my linux fedora 2, nothing at all. I opened bug 252404.
Comment 23•20 years ago
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07-21 branch build (Zip) will still not run
Comment 24•20 years ago
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sorry about that last one
Comment 25•20 years ago
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Joe your isssue with the zip builds is probably a dupe of 252404. I'm guessing the static installed-chrome.txt file hasn't been updated with the packaging name changes yet.
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Comment 26•20 years ago
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I see the bug has been marked as fixed, but I have the same problems as I originally did. When thunderbird comes up, the mailboxes aren't there, nor do I get any response from the application. I've tried to install the latest nightly build and 0.7.2, but no luck. Is there something that I need to do to get the process bootstrapped and how do I do so without losing my previous account setting and mailboxes?
Comment 27•20 years ago
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*** Bug 252577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28•20 years ago
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haven't had this problem for a while, marking verified.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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