327362 - Can't change Junk Mail settings if $HOME is on NFS volume

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Craig Harman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: version 1.5 (20051201)

When the Library/Thunderbird folder in home directory is on an NFS mounted volume, I am unable to save changes to any of the settings in the Junk Mail Controls dialog box.

Moving the Library/Thunderbird folder to a local hard drive or an Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) volume works around the problem.

Using an NFS volume as a home directory only seems to affect the Junk Mail settings.  All other settings that I have tried to alter can be changed and saved successfully.  Since the Junk Mail settings (which I can't change) and the other settings, like the basic information from the New Account wizard (which I can  change), are all stored in the prefs.js file, I suspect that the Junk Mail Controls dialog box uses some sort of non-standard file locking mechanism when attempting to write to prefs.js.

This is a similar but less severe problem to Bug 326166, which affects Thunderbird on Linux.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As admin user, delete previous Thunderbird application and then reinstall
2. Log on to an OS X machine as a user with a home directory on an NFS volume
3. Remove the users Library/Profile directory, so Thunderbird will create a clean Profile directory
4. Create a new email account using the New Account wizard
5. Go to the Junk Mail Controls menu
6. Try to change any setting, then click the OK button

Actual Results:  
I can change check box or radio button values, but clicking the OK button has no effect.  I can only close the dialog box by clicking on the Cancel button.


Expected Results:  
Clicking the OK button should close the dialog and save the settings.

I am using an OS X 10.4.5 client machine.  The NFS volumes are on an OS X 10.3.9 server.  I am using Panther's Open Directory service to implement network home directories.

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is now 2.0.0.16)

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to previous comment. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to the bug with your reasons why.