342450 - RSS / Web feeds / News & Blogs stops working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 322793

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

Thunderbird refuses to get new messages from any feed; upon clicking the button, nothing happens. When adding a new feed, the progress meter stops part-way through "Verifying the RSS feed" and nothing further happens.

The only workaround I can find is to make a new News & Blogs account (or presumably a new profile).

Seen in Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 en-GB  and 1.8-branch (2.0 alpha) en-US nightlies from May-ish 2006, on Windows XP (on a low-end, memory-starved, slow-witted computer). I have no steps to reproduce other than general usage. I suspect a crash (TB20051437E) is responsible or related.

Comment 1

[Ropp]

Do you have Lightning installed?

(In reply to comment #0)
> Thunderbird refuses to get new messages from any feed; upon clicking the
> button, nothing happens. When adding a new feed, the progress meter stops
> part-way through "Verifying the RSS feed" and nothing further happens.
> 
> The only workaround I can find is to make a new News & Blogs account (or
> presumably a new profile).
> 
> Seen in Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 en-GB  and 1.8-branch (2.0 alpha) en-US nightlies
> from May-ish 2006, on Windows XP (on a low-end, memory-starved, slow-witted
> computer). I have no steps to reproduce other than general usage. I suspect a
> crash (TB20051437E) is responsible or related.
> 

Comment 2

[Ropp]

If you have Lightning then you might have this problem https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342051

(In reply to comment #0)
> Thunderbird refuses to get new messages from any feed; upon clicking the
> button, nothing happens. When adding a new feed, the progress meter stops
> part-way through "Verifying the RSS feed" and nothing further happens.
> 
> The only workaround I can find is to make a new News & Blogs account (or
> presumably a new profile).
> 
> Seen in Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 en-GB  and 1.8-branch (2.0 alpha) en-US nightlies
> from May-ish 2006, on Windows XP (on a low-end, memory-starved, slow-witted
> computer). I have no steps to reproduce other than general usage. I suspect a
> crash (TB20051437E) is responsible or related.
> 

Comment 3

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

I did have Lightning installed very briefly, but that was a long time before this last occurrence, and I can't find any artefacts in either the program folder or my profile folder.

Trying to get messages doesn't leave anything in the error console, but trying to subscribe to a new feed produces:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a [nsIURI.spec]"  nsresult: "0x804b000a (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger-newsblog/content/Feed.js :: anonymous :: line 109"  data: no]

Comment 4

[jwq]

Comparing the bug description and the Javascript Console error messages, this bug would appear to be a duplicate of Bug 322793.

Reporter (Greg): Please check Bug 322793 and mark this bug as a duplicate of Bug 322793 if you agree that it is the same.

Comment 5

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

The symptoms aren't identical, but it's close enough.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 322793 ***