330463 - Cannot create events in Lightning, regardless of which view is displayed [works with new profile]

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Lightning Only, defect)

Description

[moscol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird Mail 1.5

I cannot create events in Lighting, no matter whether I use daily or weekly view - I get a table listing times, but nothing more.

If you want, please contact me and I'll send a screenshot, which will make things clearer.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

1) Ensure that you don't create events from 00:00 to 00:00 on the same day. (Bug 327856)

2) Please provide more information on your system:

Do you use the official Thunderbird 1.5 build from Mozilla or a third party build? Where do you downloaded it? Are you running on 32bit or 64bit WindowsXP?

What version + build date (see About menu in extension manager) of Lightning do you use? Where do you downloaded it? Did Lightning installed without problems?

If you try to create a new event: Do you get any error messages from Lightning in the JavaScript console?

Comment 2

[moscol]

Attachment: A picture of what appears on my TB after installing Lightning

Comment 3

[moscol]

I'm using the official Thunderbird 1.5 build from Mozilla, on 32 bit WinXP.

Version of lightning - 2006031011. I downloaded it from the main Lightning page, and I installed it without problems.

I had the same problems when downloading previous versions of Lightning also, although I did NOT have such problems when using the experimental versions of the Calendar extension for TB, or even the experimental version of the Mozilla Calendar extension (which I had also installed on TB in the past).

Message from the JS console: Error: this.mStartDate has no properties
Source File: chrome://calendar/content/calendar-multiday-view.xml
Line: 2002

Comment 4

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Very strange. It should work. Can you try the following please?
Start Thunderbird Profile Manager (start with 'thunderbird.exe -P' command line flag) and create a new test profile. Inside this new profile install Lightning and try to create a new event. I'm curious if this works.

Comment 5

[moscol]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Very strange. It should work. Can you try the following please?
> Start Thunderbird Profile Manager (start with 'thunderbird.exe -P' command line
> flag) and create a new test profile. Inside this new profile install Lightning
> and try to create a new event. I'm curious if this works.
> 

Your suggestion works; I suspect, therefore, that the problem might be some sort of incompatibity between Lightning and one of the (many) other extensions that I am using.

Is there any point in my sending you a list of these extensions?

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #5)
That are good news. My guess is that this might be a problem with leftovers from a previous installation of the calendar extension. 
Can you do some tests on your original profile to help us find the problem? (please make a profile backup first)

Do you have the Calendar extension installed next to Lightning? Try to disable/remove the calendar extension and test if this helps.

Do you had the Calendar extension installed before in this profile? 

Go to Thunderbird Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Config Editor... and search for 'calendar'. What keys and values are displayed? (You can attach a screenshot to this bug.) What keys and values are displayed if you uninstall Lightning?

If you go to the directory '%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\<yourprofile>\extensions' is there a subdirectory called '{8e117890-a33f-424b-a2ea-deb272731365}'. Does Lightning work if you delete this directory?

If that doesn't help please post a list of your extensions and versions. (http://mozilla.doslash.org/infolister/ extension does a good job on this)

Comment 7

[moscol]

Attachment: List of extensions in my TB profile

Comment 8

[moscol]

Attachment: Configuration files for TB with refs. to "Calendar"

Comment 9

[moscol]

Attachment: Screenshot of about:config settings referring to "Calendar"

Comment 10

[moscol]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> That are good news. My guess is that this might be a problem with leftovers
> from a previous installation of the calendar extension. 
> Can you do some tests on your original profile to help us find the problem?
> (please make a profile backup first)
> 
> Do you have the Calendar extension installed next to Lightning? Try to
> disable/remove the calendar extension and test if this helps.
> 
> Do you had the Calendar extension installed before in this profile? 
> 
> Go to Thunderbird Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Config Editor... and
> search for 'calendar'. What keys and values are displayed? (You can attach a
> screenshot to this bug.) What keys and values are displayed if you uninstall
> Lightning?
> 
> If you go to the directory
> '%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\<yourprofile>\extensions' is there a
> subdirectory called '{8e117890-a33f-424b-a2ea-deb272731365}'. Does Lightning
> work if you delete this directory?
> 
> If that doesn't help please post a list of your extensions and versions.
> (http://mozilla.doslash.org/infolister/ extension does a good job on this)

I don't have the Calendar extension installed now, although I did in the past.

No subdirectory of the sort you mentioned appears in my current TB profile.

I still have the problem with Lightning.

I'm attaching three files which might be of help: (1) a screenshot of my about:config with info about Calendar; (2) a list of my extensions, created with Infolister; (3) a zip file containing some of my TB config files (prefs.js, extensions.rdf, localstore.rdf), which contain the word "Calendar".

In light of the above, would you suggest that I prepare a new, blank profile, and install all of my extensions from scratch (without Calendar)?
> 

Comment 11

[Omar Bajraszewski]

I have the same problem- can't create event via File>New>Event when I start Thunderbird:

Error: this.mStartDate has no properties
Source File: chrome://calendar/content/calendar-multiday-view.xml
Line: 2151

I tried with new profile- didn't help.
I use Thunderbird version 2 beta 1 (20061111) with Lightning 0.4a1 2006111106

When I clicked on mini calendar it started to work.

Comment 12

[przemko]

I confirm the bug. Cannot add new events from the toolbar. 

Comment 13

[Bas van den Bosch]

Omar, bug 360821 describes your problem and is solved. przemko, is this also the case for you? Moscal, is your bug solved, so can we mark this as WFM? I think this was some special case which had to do with the leftovers from calendar like ssitter said as no-one has been able to reproduce this error. 

Comment 14

[cmtalbert]

Due to lack of comments, and the fact that this appears to be solved, marking WFM.