279657 - The Compose window never appears ...

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Richard Migneron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

From the 4 following different ways to Create a new message :

a) either by clicking on the icon "Create New Message"
b) either by clicking the menu entry "Message->New Message"
c) When in an e-mail right-clicking on an address and selecting "Compose Mail to"
d) Shortcut <shift><cmd>M

The compose new mail window never appears !

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. With latest trunk, try one (or all) the different possibilities to create a
new mail
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The clock turns a bit next to the arrow cursor and that's it !

Expected Results:  
Open a New message window !

No extensions and no themes installed !

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

anything appear on the javascript console window? Tools | javascript console

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

this has been broken on the trunk since we started the aviary landing.

I haven't gotten to fixing it yet. 

Comment 3

[Richard Migneron]

In the Javascript console, we get the following 5 messages in order :

1) Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getCharPref]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame ::
file:///Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsDefaultCLH.js
:: clh_handle :: line 81"  data: no]
Source File:
file:///Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsDefaultCLH.js
Line: 81

2) Error: GetThreadTree is not defined
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/mail3PaneWindowCommands.js
Line: 720

3) Error: redeclaration of const kMailToLength
Source File: chrome://communicator/content/nsContextMenu.js
Line: 12

4) Error: redeclaration of const SAVETYPE_COMPLETE_PAGE
Source File: chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaUtils.js
Line: 245

5) Error: Unknown property 'align'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: chrome://global/skin/progressmeter.css
Line: 80

*****

BUT, I'm not sure these are related to trying to create a new message.  I
cleared all the messages from the console, and tried it again, and NO Messages
appeared !!!!

Hope this helps !

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Richard Migneron, is this bug still a problem with current trunk builds?
It's working OK under Win2K -- but see bug 283677 about a recent breakage.

Comment 5

[Richard Migneron]

Hi Mike,

I had not upgraded, other things to do, just tested now with the 20050212, and
it works.

So we can close it I guess !

Cheers,

Richard

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reopened to fix resolution.  Richard, in the future, please use WorksForMe 
unless you can point to a specific patch that fixed the problem.