267753 - [Mac] cannot compose or reply

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[James Paige]

Thunderbird MacOS trunk build 20041104 running on Mac OS X 10.3.5

Clicking "Write" causes the "wait" mouse cursor to spin until the mouse is
moved. No compose window ever appears. No errors appear in the console javascript.

Clocking on the "Reply" button to any message causes the "wait" mouse cursor to
spin until the mouse is moved. No compose window ever appears. No errors appear
in the javascript console.

Using an IMAP account, reproduced with a clean profile.

Comment 1

[parish]

Attachment: Error window

I see a similar thing except that I get a window appear containing an error -
see attachment - and in the JS console I get:

Error: gMsgCompose is not defined
Source File: chrome://messenger-smime/content/msgCompSMIMEOverlay.js
Line: 72

WinXP SP1 20041207 CVS build although I've been seeing this in my CVS builds
for a while now (few weeks?).

Comment 2

[parish]

OK, I think that my problem is a different one. I raised bug 274562 for it

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 276900 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

Marcia, are you able to compose/reply on linux/windows trunk?

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

when looking at the Window menu (on Mac OS X), there's a blank entry for each
attempt at bringing up a mail compose window.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this broke sometime btwn 01-Oct-2004 and 01-Nov-2004. narrowing regression window.

btw, unable to test on Linux due to bug 276918.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this regressed btwn 2004102003-trunk (works fine) and 2004110105-trunk (broken).
unfortunately, there weren't builds available on archive.m.o for the
intermediary dates, hence the broad window.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

> btw, unable to test on Linux due to bug 276918.

actually, with a 2004111506-trunk Linux build this bug is not a problem. so
perhaps this might be Mac-only...

Comment 9

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

I am seeing this in the current nightly builds on OSX 10.3.7.

Comment 10

[Mike Small]

I am having the same problem with TB 1.0 on windows XP. Clicking on write, reply
or reply to all produces the egg timer for a few seconds then nothing happens.
When I close TB, it does not shut down, and cannot be restarted until I kill the
process via Task Manager. This suddenly started happening after one month of
relatively problem free operation. I had not installed any new extensions or new
software elsewhere when this happened. Renders the software unusable.

Comment 11

[Scott MacGregor]

the mac error is strange:

chrome: failed to get base url for chrome://editor/content/editor.js

couldn't convert chrome URL: chrome://editor/content/editor.js

I'm not sure why it isn't finidng editor.js on the trunk for Mac only yet. 

Comment 12

[Scott MacGregor]

for some reason the build isn't registering the editor content package like it
is for everything else. content/editor and content/editor-region are both missing. 

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

Make sure we build editor\ui before the final rsync in mail\app\Makefile.in
otherwise it happens after the build package is done and we don't get any
editor UI in thunderbird.

Comment 14

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 173215 [details] [diff] [review]
the fix

r=me, no sr needed

Comment 15

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed with the 2005020704-trunk tbird build on mac os x 10.3.7.