527348 - "Account settings" doesn't update prefs.js

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Dan Himes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105 Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4

Anecdote:  I noticed that I had a typo in my outgoing email address (reply-to was correct).
To change, I used the gui
*Edit->Account Settings
*re-typed Email Address
*OK

That didn't work:  newly composed email still retained old address, even after restarting TBird and system (reboot).  My fix:  manually replace wrong account info with correct in prefs.js.

Corollary(?):  the email didn't send properly until I fixed this bad email address (*I think*-- haven't confirmed this for sure because it wouldn't obviously FAIL, just people reported not getting the mail.  Since the change, they are receiving mail to my knowledge).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Account settings
2.change email address
3."ok"
4. "Write"
5.  "From" line should have changed
Actual Results:  
Previous email address still entered into "From" line

Expected Results:  
New email address should be entered into "From" line

I tried to make sure this wasn't a dupe before submitting.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Ok since b4 came out we've updated the code for accoutn settings a lot. Would you mind test with the latest nightly if your issue is still present ?

Comment 2

[Dan Himes]

I will if I can figure out how...

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I will if I can figure out how...

* Make a backup of your profile
* Go to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ and download a version for your os - install it and run it.

And if you have more question, please ask !

Comment 4

[Dan Himes]

Sorry-- the README.txt file isn't very helpful.  How do I install?  run-mozilla.sh?

I don't want to ask questions that a web search can answer, but more INSTALL isn't giving anything up, ./configure doesn't do anything, so perhaps it's a script unique to t-bird or mozilla?  I didn't see any guidance in the comments.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Jut unzip the tarball
and run ./Thunderbird

Comment 6

[Dan Himes]

[dhimes ~/Download/thunderbird]$./thunderbird
./thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Comment 7

[Dan Himes]

Note:  I copied my thunderbird directory to /usr/lib64 where thunderbird-3.0b4 directory lives but still no joy in starting.
Also home of the "missing" file:
[dhimes /usr/lib64]$locate libdbus-glib-1.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Wolfgang what should the user do to start tb ?

Comment 9

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

Dan is using an upstream build for i386 but has a 64bit system.
Apparently the 32bit dbus-glib libraries are not installed there. Not sure how Fedora handles biarch packages.

Comment 10

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Dan can you install dbus-glib for 32 bits ?

Comment 11

[Dan Himes]

OK- that worked (yum -y install dbus-glib.i586)

then:
[dhimes ~/Download/thunderbird]$./thunderbird

(thunderbird-bin:2622): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "nodoka",

(thunderbird-bin:2622): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "nodoka",
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Result:  changing email address in preferences still did *not* update the email address on a new message ( which is the original report).

The build I tried:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091110 Shredder/3.0pre

Comment 12

[Dan Himes]

OK-- update...  It looks like the change WAS made yesterday (my email account apparently failed all day because I didn't undo the change).  The change only appeared in my "From" text field after restarting Tbird.

So, it apparently updated prefs.js yesterday with the build reported above but didn't keep the change in the field, so I didn't see it until I reloaded the app this am.  I'm not even sure this makes sense.

Comment 13

[:aceman]

Not much, at least to me. Can you try it now with a recent TB? Can you still reproduce it?