308661 - Crash: composing when signature file is pointed to a file on a windows disk

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Laurens Simonis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050913 Firefox/1.0.6 (Ubuntu package 1.0.6)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050913 Firefox/1.0.6 (Ubuntu package 1.0.6)

When using thunderbird on linux with a profile created on Windows, TB crashes
when trying to write an email (be it a new one or a reply) when "Attach this
signature" is enabled, and the file location is in the form of c:\bug\sig.txt 

To be more precise: I had a signature enabled in windows, copied my profile
folder over to my new linux machine, and booted thunderbird with 

mozilla-thunderbird -safe-mode

to get past the fact that of course my skin was not there. When replying or
composing a mail with an identity which had 'Attach this signature' highlighted
in windows, it crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make profile on windows
2. Attach a signature to the identity
3. copy the profile folder to linux
4. Get firefox on linux to use all the settings (I did this by making a new
profile, and putting all the files from the windows profile there)
5. start with mozilla-thunderbird -safe-mode
6 quit
7. start thunderbird normally
8. compose a mail, and at least select the identity with the signature
Actual Results:  
Crash - thunderbird is closed.

Expected Results:  
compose an email :)

Comment 1

[Laurens Simonis]

Oh, and if I alter prefs.js, and set attach_signature to false, and remove
sig_file and sig_file-rel, the problem is solved.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's not possible to share all of the profile between windows and linux, though
much of it works... 

Anyways, tried to reproduce, but couldn't get any crash. Using version 1.5 Beta
1 (20050915) /linux.

Comment 3

[avb]

(In reply to comment #2)
> It's not possible to share all of the profile between windows and linux, though
> much of it works... 
> 
> Anyways, tried to reproduce, but couldn't get any crash. Using version 1.5 Beta
> 1 (20050915) /linux.

I've got the same trouble, and solved the same way. Lines like thees where the cause:

--<cut from profiles.ini>--
[Profile0]
Name=Alberto
IsRelative=0
Path=/home/alberto/.mozilla-thunderbird-profiles/Alberto
Default=1

--<cut from prefs.js>--
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.sig_file", "D:\\Mis Documentos\\ThunderBird\\Alberto\\signatureOky.txt");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.sig_file-rel", "[ProfD]../../../../../../../D:/Mis Documentos/ThunderBird/Alberto/signatureOky.txt");

tb crashes when composing/reply/forwarding *AND* in the main tab for the acount in the accounts setup.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM, feel free to reopen if you can reproduce with 2.0. And if so, include a talkback id. <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback>