Closed Bug 380406 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Cannot unsubscribe from any feeds in Thunderbird 2

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Feed Reader
Version:
1.8 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: bugzilla-mozilla-20000923, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: qawanted, regression) 

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0

Clean Thunderbird 2 install, extensions: Talkback, British English dictionary, and JavaScript Debugger.

Any time I try to unsubscribe from a feed, this error occurs:

Error: server has no properties
Source File: chrome://messenger-newsblog/content/utils.js
Line: 232

Bug 338955 comment 7 looks like the same problem. Note that this bug is not a dup of bug 338955, as that one is about feeds going away and coming back, and is only for thunderbird 1.5.
verified also on trunk Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070511 Thunderbird/3.0a1 ID:2007051103 [cairo]

I can also not delete the Top RSS folder (the folder on top of the RSS Feed).
Flags: blocking1.8.1.5?
Flags: blocking-thunderbird3?
The warnings are shown because the call of the function Feed(...) misses the server parameter. Only adding this doesn't fix the issue. Other warnings appear. So I'm not sure if it's the right way.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mail/extensions/newsblog/content/feed-subscriptions.js#519

It's also reproducable on Mac with a trunk debug build (HW/OS=>ALL).
OS: Windows Vista → All
Hardware: PC → All
Just to be clear, the only item I see in the JS Console (in TB 2) when attempting this is the one *error* I put into comment 0. I see no warnings.
Are you saying it's impossible to remove or that it doesn't show in the dialog immediately? The feeds are removed, only, it doesn't show before you open the dialog again - or thats' what I see.
In Thunderbird 2 the entire operation fails. The feed is not removed visibly at the time, is still there after reopening, and still continues to be downloaded perioditcally - as far as I can remember. I'm away from the computer right now and can't check exactly, but I'm sure they kept downloading, which forced me to resort to editing feeds.rdf by hand (which is not fun).
Only the subscription dialog is broken. I tried to delete a feed from within the folder pane and this is working. The feed is moved to the trash. Anyone know which code this step is using? I don't know where to start searching. The folder pane is still a mystique for me.
What do you mean "delete a feed from within the folder pane"? Do you mean deleting a folder that contains feed subscriptions? (Any folder can have 0 or more subscriptions, after all - they are not equivolent.) This bug certainly wasn't about that, either; though the last time I tried this operation in 1.5, the folder just magically came back with a broken name and stuff, but that's really not this bug.
I don't think deleting a feed folder resulting in unsubscribe was ever implemented.

James: is that any feed, or perhaps some feed that for some reason got hosed? Try adding a new feed and unsubscribing, just to test. 
This is for any feed you subscribe. See my comment 2 why that happens. When I tried to fix this issue I got multiple follow-up warnings and errors afair. 
Sounds ugly, but not blocking. Scott: will approve a patch if you want to get this in.
Flags: blocking1.8.1.5?
Flags: blocking1.8.1.5-
After using the "subscribe..." dialog to remove a feed, and then restarting,
is the feed removed, as in bug 375745 ?
(If so, workaround is to restart, and this bug looks like a dup.)
No, it isn't removed or I would have said that.

Thunderbird 2 is so crap that I'm no longer using it, so you'll have to find some other poor sap to answer your trivial-to-test questions from now on.
I've unsubscribed for quite a few feeds with 2.0, without any problems. How are your feed set up to be stored? All in one folder, or one folder per feed?
IIRC, it was a few feeds per folder (the folders were categories for the feeds, ish).
Assignee: mscott → nobody
I have no idea why you can't unsubscribe, but with a handful of CCs and not a single duplicate it doesn't seem wide spread .There must be something very odd with your config, or very bad data of some kind. Do you still see the problem using trunk?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/
Not blocking on this, as the latest indications seem that its WFM (and I've not had problems either on trunk) also no duplicates found (apart from bug 338955 which I'll look at in a moment).

If the problem can be reconfirmed, maybe with a particular feed, then please feel free to renominate for blocking or wanted.
Flags: blocking-thunderbird3? → blocking-thunderbird3-
Keywords: qawanted
Same here. Cannot be reproduced anymore with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080830025944 Shredder/3.0b1pre ID:20080830025944
Component: RSS → Feed Reader
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
Version: 2.0 → 1.8 Branch
WFM per comment 17.
Please reopen if you can reproduce in version 3
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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