288990 - hangs when I try to open a custom folder with too many messages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

In a custom folder created in the Local Folders account, I have over 1200 email
messages that have are 1) based on a Local Folders message filter and 2) moved
manually using the Run Filters on Folders from the Local Folders Input folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double click to open the custom folder and view the contained email messages
2. The Beach Ball cursor spins indefinitely in Mac OS X 10.3.8
3. On an iMac G5, you can hear the CPU cycles increase quite a bit.

Actual Results:  
The Beach Ball cursor spins indefinitely (tested for 10 minutes).
It appears that Thunderbird was attempting to "read" the email messages.
I tested this bug three times. Each time after I force quit Thunderbird and
reopened the application, the bolded number of unread messages next to the
folder icon decreased.

Expected Results:  
Opened the custom Folder so I can view the email messages.

Comment 1

[Patrick Reiter Horn]

TB Version: version 1.0.2 (20050403)
(Built from source to debug another bug.)
OS: Linux 2.6 Kernel on Intel P4

I have found a similar problem (likely the same issue):
I opened a local folder and it crashed due to a stack overflow in

#12 0xb7504493 in nsMsgLocalMailFolder::OnStopRunningUrl (this=0x8779298, 
    aUrl=0x904274c, aExitCode=0) at nsLocalMailFolder.cpp:3293
3293        mReparseListener->OnStopRunningUrl(aUrl, aExitCode);

when mReparseListener is the same is this.

The solution might be to check mReparseListener==this before calling it recursively.

I will attach my gdb output.

For me this bug seems unreproducable, but happened after the "need to reset
thread root key" bug occurred ( using the patch from bug 269554 ).
I tried to scroll through every folder a number of times, and finally I opened
some local folders which caused the crash.

It probably can be reproduced, but maybe the *.msf files were regenerated.

Comment 2

[Patrick Reiter Horn]

Oops.  This bug is different.  I didn't read the report carefully.
I'll start a new bug with my problem.

It is probably a duplicate of bug 269554 whose patch still hasn't been applied
to Thunderbird 1.0.2.

That bug, or what causes the parent==self problem, also randomly seems to change
the # of unread messages, which was also a symptom of this bug.

Comment 3

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Yes, my experience was also that this bug caused a change in the number of
unread messages

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

perhaps a dup of bug 290078?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290078 ***

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

not sure if this is a dup --when I looked more closely at the talkback data for
bug 290078, all of the crashes were (so far) only on Windows machines.

Comment 6

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 289622 ***

Comment 7

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If this bug is considered a duplicate of bug 289622 (although the description
does not appear to match in ANY way to the bug I reported), then as of TB 1.0.2
the bug that I reported still exists and IS reproduceable EVERY time. The
particular custom local folder in question has 1400 messages. When selecting the
folder, the Mac OS X 10.3.8 spinning cursor just keeps spinning. The ONLY
resolution is a Force Quit. Though I have not used any software to measure CPU
usage, it sounds like the CPU usage and atttempt to access to disk goes way up
in per centage.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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