259872 - Sunbird not starting (extns or no), intermittent hourglass, funky task manager behavior

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256206

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Pierce Presley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Sunbird

When opening Sunbird, I do not get any indication the program is starting (no 
task bar button, no systray icon, no splash screen) other than hard disk 
activity that eventually (1.5 min) becomes bursts of disk activity at about 1-
2 Hz, coordinated with the hourglass-and-pointer pointer. This intermittent 
activity lasts until I stop it (at least three hours). Inspecting the Task 
Manager to find the problem, noticed that sunbird.exe would go to about 20 
percent CPU usage (machine specs: P4 3.06 MHz w/HT, 1GB RAM, 60 GB HDD, Sager 
8887 notebook). Selecting sunbird.exe was problematic, as it would unselect 
itself during the burst of disk activity. Ending the sunbird.exe process 
eliminated the problems above.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Sunbird or Sunbird (No Extensions)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
See details.

Expected Results:  
Start Sunbird

Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

As suggested in 
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=124270
installing from the .zip version fixes the problem

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256206 ***

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!