279178 - general.config.filename value ignored and prefs file no longer loaded at startup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Barry Shaw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050113 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050113 Firefox/1.0

The preferences file set in greprefs/all.js via:

pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla-web-tux.cfg");
pref("general.config.vendor", "mozilla-web-tux");

is no longer loaded, and hence the autoconfiguration pref:

pref("autoadmin.global_config_url", <url>)

can no longer be set.  We use this to provide a url that configures mozilla,
firefox and thunderbird.  We are using firefox-1.0, mozilla-1.7.5, for which the
autoconf still works, however after moving from thunderbird-0.8 to
thunderbird-1.0 (20050112) this no longer works.

Checking chrome://global/content/config.xul indicates that the
general.config.[filename|vendor] are being loaded from the greprefs/all.js file.
 The correct value of config.general.obscure_value is also being set in
defaults/pref/all-thunderbird.js.

Running thunderbird-bin with strace and checking for file accesses indicates the
the file specified in the config.general.filename is not even looked for nor
attempted to be opened.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add 

pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla-web-tux.cfg");
pref("general.config.vendor", "mozilla-web-tux");

to greprefs/all.js

2.  perform a byte shift of the relevant amount (see value of
config.general.obscure_value) on a file as named above in
general.config.filename.  This file contains:

pref("general.config.vendor", "mozilla-web-tux");
pref("autoadmin.global_config_url","http://someurl");

and is placed in the thunderbird install dir (/usr/bin/MozillaThunderbird).

3. run thunderbird


Actual Results:  
Create new email account dialog is loaded, no autoconfiguration occurs.  strace
indicates that the filename specifies in general.config.filename is not looked
for , although the general.config.[filename|vendor] settings have been loaded. 
Web logs indicate that there was no connection attempt from the machine when
thunderbird was started.

Expected Results:  
Contacted web server and download file containing site specific configuration
settings.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

is autoconfig.dll in your components dir? We don't ship it with thunderbird by
default, and without it, MCD won't work at all.

Comment 2

[Barry Shaw]

*** Bug 279180 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Barry Shaw]

Checked the components directory and there was no such file.  Looking at the 0.8
install we had, I found a libautoconfig.so file.  Copying this into the
components directory of the 1.0 install didn't resolve the issue.

How do we get the relevant version of this library for version 1.0 of
thunderbird?  (I had a quick look at the configure file and there doesn't seem
to be an option to cause this to be built).

Thanks for the quick reply, BTW 8)   

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> How do we get the relevant version of this library for version 1.0 of
> thunderbird?  (I had a quick look at the configure file and there doesn't seem
> to be an option to cause this to be built).

Add
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=wallet,pref to your .mozconfig

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

pref extension has been added by Bug 225288