286742 - Mac Thunderbird trunk build fails to launch / start

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

seen on Mac trunk build 2005-03-18-04-trunk

-download and unpack the .dmg
-copy the file to desktop or applications folder
-double click to launch it

tested results:
the icon bounces in the dock a couple of times, disappears (expected), but never
reappears.  The application fails to start.

expected results:  Thunderbird starts.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

the last time tracy ran tbird trunk smoketests was 3/15, so this regressed recently.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

I saw this to Wednesday at the office but thought it was something with my Mac
that was acting funny.

Debug builds seem to come up ok. 

Comment 3

[Patrick]

i had some similar problems 

Firefox: 
* rw.firefox-1.0+.en-US.mac.dmg -> seems to be 26Mb of emptiness while
* firefox-1.0+.en-US.mac.dmg  -> bounces a few times in the dock and then fades
and disappears. See also bug 244304 comment 26. Related?
* builds normally on my Powerbook, OS X 10.3.8, fully updated.
--> problem on the official mozilla build?

Thunderbird
* doesn't complete compilation. Since i've been fooling a bit with my build
scripts and optimizations i'm not fully sure if thisit's me & my mac or the
mozilla build process.
* didn't have more time to test this, so went back to 1.0 for the moment.

Comment 4

[Patrick]

(In reply to comment #3)
> i had some similar problems 
> 
> Firefox: 
> * rw.firefox-1.0+.en-US.mac.dmg -> seems to be 26Mb of emptiness while
> * firefox-1.0+.en-US.mac.dmg  -> bounces a few times in the dock and then fades
> and disappears. See also bug 244304 comment 26. Related?
> * builds normally on my Powerbook, OS X 10.3.8, fully updated.
> --> problem on the official mozilla build?

concerning firefox: the mozilla.org trunk builds are working for me again per 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050321
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

one thing that's weird about this is I can run the build just fine on the actual
release machine that made the bits. furthermore, debug builds built on my Mac
work fine too. It's when I download the bits from the release machine onto my
mac that I have the problem. 

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

I'm not seeing any XPT files in Thunderbid.app/Contents/MacOSX/components
in the disk image created by the release machine. That's why the app isn't
starting. 

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

adding this information to make it easier for me to find this kind of problem in
the future.

The release machine has an error when it trys to compress all of the .xpt files
into mozilla.xpt:

ERROR: found duplicate definitions of interface *****.idl with iids

mv rename mozilla.xpt to components/mozilla.xpt: No such file or directory

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

The mac builds weren't starting up because thunderbird was accidentally
building toolkit's download directory. This in turn led to the xpt packaging
error I cited in the comment above which caused the disk image to not have any
xpt information.

Comment 9

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified fixed with Mac build 2005-03-24-04-trunk