58732 - Browser hangs on startup

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Kendric Beachey]

I am posting this using the Oct. 2 nightly build, which is the last version that
worked on this machine.  (I include the released version of M18 in this
statement.)  Ever since then, new builds have all had the same problem, where
they hang during startup.  The splash screen appears, and the hard drive does a
lot of crunching, and after a while the hard drive crunching gradually dies down
until it stops.  Then there's no more progress, even if I give it ten minutes or
an hour to finish.  The splash screen will promptly redraw itself if you cover
it with another window and then uncover itself, so it isn't completely out in
la-la land, but just stuck somehow.

Is there some incompatibility with earlier builds, like the problem some months
back where we had to erase old versions of Mozilla?

Hopefully I learn how to fix this soon, as this build will expire shortly...

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

please remove any old installs of Mozilla including your old profiles (found in
a Users50 directory either one level above the install directory or in your
winnt/profiles/user/application data/mozilla) and your mozregistry.dat file in
your winnt dir.  After that download and install a current nightly trunk build
and report back.

Comment 2

[Kendric Beachey]

Worked like a charm!  The latest build is running like a top.

Thanks for telling me all the places to look for files; I wouldn't have found
them all.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified