322116 - Seamonkey is unable to load profile and to create properly new profile

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Klaus P. Kuhlemann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de; rv:1.9a) Gecko/2006010121 Seamonkey 1.5a

After install of the 200601o121 hourly build, semonkey is unable to load the profile, the window of the profile manager is empty. Creating a new profile, same situation.
Removing the profile and ne install: a broken window "converting profile" appears and freezes without creating properly a new profile. After killing this window, seamonkey runs, but not stable. The preferences window don't show all options, opening of local files dont succeed, seamonkey freezes often. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install and run the build determined above.
2. The profile manager appears with copletly empty window.
3. Create a new profile.


Actual Results:  
No profiles are loaded.

Expected Results:  
Loading of the preferences stored in the profile or creating of a working new profile.

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To reinstall an older version of Seamonkey, it was necessary to copy a profile from another windows installation.

Comment 1

[Tobias Fischer]

Thomas Schade in d.c.s.m.nb <[e-mail]> has reported this Problem too for SeaMonkey and Thunderbird Tinderbox-Trunk-Builds. 

AFAIK he was using the Installer-Builds. Using the CREATURE-Tinderbox-ZIP-Build 2006010202 I got this messagebox at startup:

[JavaScriptApplication]
"Error launching browser window: Reference Error: getWebNavigation is
not defined"

and SM wont start with the Browserwindow. Using "seamonkey.exe -mail" Opens an  MailNews-Window without any *bars and empty *panes. 

Using 2006010108 everything was fine, so this was an regression in this range, probably caused by the Checkins for Bug 318193 

Someone with editbug privileges should change the Product to "Core" and "Severity" almost up to critical, because this blocks testing. 

Comment 2

[Tobias Fischer]

Duh, here is the UA from Thomas Schade: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060102 Thunderbird/1.6a1 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0

and mine: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060102 SeaMonkey/1.5a Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 {Build ID: 2006010202}

for the brocken Builds. 

Linux-Builds seems to work almost, so I think this was Windows only for Trunk-Builds. Sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Thomas Schade]

(In reply to comment #1)
> AFAIK he was using the Installer-Builds. Using the CREATURE-Tinderbox-ZIP-Build
> 2006010202 I got this messagebox at startup:

Small correction:
My Thunderbird is installer build from 'patrocles-trunk', Seamonkey is .zip-build from 'creature-trunk'.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by followup checkin for bug 318193, apparently.

Comment 5

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Still broken for me with the zip build. Can't start it, but the version string says : "1.9a1: 2006010309". I'll check the next version.

The strangest thing is that when trying to create a profile the Profile Wizard displays a single star character intead of a path under the "Your user settings, preferences, bookmarks and mail will be stored in:" text.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> "1.9a1: 2006010309"

The patch in question landed at "2006-01-03 11:26".  Next version should be happier.

Comment 7

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

I can confirm Build Id 2006010509 as fixing the problem