355598 - Thunderbird just closes with no messages at all.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 357861

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Worcester12345]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8pre) Gecko/20061004 Firefox/1.5.0.8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061005 Thunderbird/2.0b1pre ID:2006100506

Was just composing a message and it just up and disappeared on me. There was no talkback, no error, nothing in Task Manager. Nothing! Thank goodness I have the drafts thing do auto-save periodically, or I would have lost a lot. I still did experience dataloss, but just not as bad as if it hadn't saved. It did this while I was in the message and adding a contact.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Created message
2. Adding recipients
3. Crashed!

Actual Results:  
Entire Thunderbird application just up and disappeared without any warnings or messages.

Expected Results:  
Keep composing message, then send message and go to check for new incoming messages after.

No talkback either.

Comment 1

[Worcester12345]

By "no talkback either", I mean I have it installed, but it didn't fire up.

Comment 2

[Worcester12345]

Did it again today. This time, I hit the forward button, and the whole thing just closed shop completely. I waited a little to see if it would come up, and checked the task manager, but I had to restart the program. The forward worked the second time I tried it.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

So, was it present in the task manager list of processes? 
I sometimes see the program "disappear" from the program list (hm, windows bottom bar of open programs), but I can still access them using alt+tab. Maybe that was what you were seeing? I think its a windows bug, have seen it happen with other apps too.

Comment 4

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #3)
> So, was it present in the task manager list of processes? 
> I sometimes see the program "disappear" from the program list (hm, windows
> bottom bar of open programs), but I can still access them using alt+tab. Maybe
> that was what you were seeing? I think its a windows bug, have seen it happen
> with other apps too.
> 
Nope. It was COMPLETELY done.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

is this still an issue with beta 1? 

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html

Thanks.

Comment 6

[Worcester12345]

Well, I don't have any rhyme or reason as to when it might happen, but I don't see any specific fixes either. It isn't WFM or fixed, so maybe just wait until the next beta?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

so you haven't seen it since 10-6?
ever seen on trunk?

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

unless we can get a reproducible test case, not much we can do for tb final.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

if talkback didn't get triggered the problem could be anything.  Did you have spell check turned on?  If so this is likely a dupe of bug 357861 - which emerged at about the same time as your bug report.  Do you agree?

Comment 10

[Worcester12345]

Hard to say. Might just leave it open, but not blocking as a future placeholder in case it happens again. No good way to trigger it, but no know fix either. 

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

since spell check was on duping - it was a frequent and predictable crasher at that time. 

feel free to reopen if you see it again on a recent build.

Comment 12

[Worcester12345]

But why no talkback? Or can Talkback also crash with it?

Comment 13

[Worcester12345]

Was the lack of Talkback part of this particular crash?