295129 - Thunderbird crashes on import from Mozilla Mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262280

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[diana1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4

w/o any messages.
Problem is a broken reference to local folders from old mozilla directory
(Mozilla Mail dos NOT crash with the same settings)

Below is a line from prefs.js that causes crash. /mnt/o
(../../../../../mnt/o/mail) does not exist 
user_pref("mail.server.server2.directory-rel", "[ProfD]../../../../../mnt/o/mail");


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add broken folder in prefs.js as illustrated above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
thunderbird exits immediately

Expected Results:  
Open Thunderbird

Maybe this bug should go under "general" as it may happen any time an external
reference was broken, e.g. installing a new system using old /home folder

Please let me know if you need additional information

Comment 1

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262280 ***