487044 - Constant crashes - every few minutes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Penelope Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Barry Gauthier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Eudora 8.0.0b5

This new version of Eudora is constantly crashing.  This problem never existed in the previous version.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Eudora
2.Start to read mail
3.Wait for program to crash
Actual Results:  
Eudora will crash within 4 minutes.

Expected Results:  
Stable product.

Comment 1

[Jeff Beckley]

Barry, does this look like the same as bug 459910?  Can you try turning off mail.winsearch.enable, as suggested in 459910#c9, and see if the crashing goes away?

Comment 2

[lester]

This sounds a lot like my bug 486980 from beta5.  Indeed, this constant crashing happened to me, for the first 6 hours of running beta6 after I upgraded from beta5.  After a while, Eudora started acting well!  It's as though the beta6 version had to chew through all 210,000 messages on my hard disk, vetting them for the new program.  Perhaps a routine is correcting all the indveraent "important" labels?  

After this "stress test" (pardon the politically correct joke), Eudora beta6 still throws an occasional error, looking for a locked or unavailable impab.mab or abook.mab file.  As before, the crashes are much less frequent if I unclick "Enable Global Search and Indexer".  Try that.

Say, what does "Enable global search and Indexer" actually do, anyway?

Comment 3

[Barry Gauthier]

Thanks for the suggestion Jeff, but I didn't need to do anything.  The constant crashing went away on its own, just as it did for Lester.  I think it took about 4 days.

I had downloaded & installed Thunderbird because Eudora was crashing even as I was writing emails.  Thunderbird was stable and allowed me to continue working.  (Too bad they just don't make Thunderbird look like Eudora and be done with it.)  Anyway, I was only using Eudora to redirect messages and "wammo" all of a sudden it started working properly.

My only two ongoing problems now with Eudora are:
   1.  Clicking on links does not open a browser.
   2.  When I'm entering an address the LDAP loggin window opens and I must click enter twice before I can complete/find the address.

Any ideas with those?

Comment 4

[Matt Dudziak]

If you are able to reproduce this, please try try to reproduce it in Thunderbird 3.0.1 (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/). If the problem is present in Thunderbird please file a bug against Thunderbird. If the problem is NOT present in Thunderbird please let me know or re-open the bug here.

Thanks, Matt

Comment 5

[lester]

(In reply to comment #4)
> If you are able to reproduce this, please try try to reproduce it in
> Thunderbird 3.0.1 (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/). If the
> problem is present in Thunderbird please file a bug against Thunderbird. If the
> problem is NOT present in Thunderbird please let me know or re-open the bug
> here.
> Thanks, Matt

All is sweetness & light, in both Eudora 8beta8 and Thunderbird 3.0.  I've not tried 3.0.1