280287 - Often shows as still running long after exit.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246909

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Shapiro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0

When I exit Thunderbird its windows closes and its indicator disappears from the
Windows Status bar.  However, when I shut down the PC, sometimes as long as
twenty minutes later, I get a message that it's still running.  Also, if I check
the Windows Task Manager before shutdown, it often shows as a running process
long after I've exited.  I can shut it down via "End Process".

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
2. Peform functions such as reading and sending Email
3. Exit Thunderbird
4. Wait a few minutes, then look in the Processes tab of the Windows Task Manger
window (Ct-Alt-Del)

Actual Results:  
Often it still shows in the Task Manager Processes tab as still running.

Expected Results:  
It should not have still been running.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of Bug 246909?

By the way, you say "still running long" but other says "remain", you say "exit"
but other says "closing".
Searching bug is very very difficult...

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

I considered posting this in Bug 246909, but this seems to relate more to 
protocol handling issues. I also have issues with the Thunderbird process not 
exiting properly, even though the GUI closes.

Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.6a1 (20051006)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird.
2. (optional) Set Thunderbird to work offline. This eliminates any potential 
connectivity issues as possible causes.
3. Open a message compose window; for example, by pressing ctrl+n.
4. Close the compose window.
5. Exit Thunderbird.
6. Check the task manager for instances of Thunderbird.

Actual Results:
Thunderbird is still running, even though the GUI is closed.

Further Notes:
Even though the process is still running, launching Thunderbird again brings 
the GUI back to the inbox as it normally does on startup. There is still only 
one instance of the process, so it appears the process is not frozen.
Also, if Thunderbird is configured to ask for offline/online status on startup, 
launching Thunderbird again if the process has not exited correctly does not 
request offline/online status as it normally would. Instead, it just returns 
the GUI directly to the inbox.

Could this be related to Bug 311369?

Comment 4

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

I just tested 1.5b2. The issue I described in Comment #3 does not occur in 
1.5b2, nor does Bug 311369. Strange.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246909 ***