296739 - Error message upon start-up which randomly repeats itself during use of browser

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[James Meyers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Upon start-up, error message pops up before browser loads.  Error message is
"Data source name not found and no default driver specified."  After clearing
error message, browser seems to run fine except that the same error message
appears randomly during browser usage (i.e. error message appears even while not
navigating to new pages).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to version 1.0.4 from previous version.
2. Open browser.
3.

Actual Results:  
Upon start-up, error message pops up before browser loads.  Error message is
"Data source name not found and no default driver specified."  After clearing
error message, browser seems to run fine except that the same error message
appears randomly during browser usage (i.e. error message appears even while not
navigating to new pages).

Expected Results:  
No error message, or at least the error message should have been more specific
so that the end user could readily identify the problem and self-correct the issue.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

That is very likely a problem with an extension. Did you try using safe mode?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

James: can you please test using safe-mode?

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Closing out bugs in the old style updater, which are superseded by the new system in 1.5.