43545 - when i start mozilla it starts 50-100 sesions until windows kill him

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 27601

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Adrian BAlan]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95)
BuildID:    M16

I downloaded M16 with Fullcircle(zip file for WIN). I unziped in a new 
folder.When i click Mozilla it put the splashscreen then it starts to open 
hundreds of windows(are small windows- just the titlebar).Only the second one 
have a name - Mozilla, the rest of the windows have no title - not even int the 
taskbar . The taskbar fils with icons and the windosw stops mozilla -" this 
program has performed an illegal operation - bla bla bla" and i have to kill 
him .
I used M15 before and it worked well .
My operating sistem is Win95 - 4.0.950B
My default browser in IE- version 5.00.2919.6307
My computer is a P133 with 32 MB RAM 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just unzip the archive and run Mozilla.exe  on a sistem like mine -like i 
described earlier
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Crash

Expected Results:  Start

Full circle eved doesn't start to say it's something wrong .
I tried even with a nigtly build - the same result - Maybe it's because of WIn 
95 - 4.0.950b
If you want addditional information please send me an e-mail .
Now i'll try the installer( not the ziped version)

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

you need to delete previous versions of mozilla including your previous Profiles
and the mozregistry.dat file located in the c:\windows dir.

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

Actually, this sounds like bug 27601, the root cause being that you do not 
have msvcirt.dll installed in your windows system directory. (This contains
runtime code for MSVC++ and is installed by many software applications). 

One way to get this properly installed is to install Netscape PR1:
 http://www.netscape.com/download/previewrelease.html
or install one of the recent nightly builds:
 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-installer.exe
and then to unzip M16 (or use the M16 installer if you prefer). (Even though
it seems perverse to install a current nightly, and then install M16, you 
may prefer to do it this way as the M16 build is (likely) more stable than
any given nightly that you might download). 

Unfortunately, this information was erroneously removed from the release note,
and the M16 installer doesn't quite have the right magic bits set up to get
this done (I'm working on getting this fixed as well). 

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

yep, this is a profile corruption issue. lowering severit, blocker is only
allowed for smoketest blockers. John may be right about the missing file, but I
think 95b has it.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

There are some issues however with installing M16 after installing an M17
nightly which may result in corrupted sidebar.  

Comment 5

[John Morrison]

Clean installs of win95B and win2000 do not have msvcirt.dll

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

resolving this a dupe of 27601


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27601 ***

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

verified per reporters email comments (wokred after installing msvcrt.dll)