70494 - Subscribe to newsgroup is not immediately reflected, twisty is missing.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P2)

Description

[marina]

*** observed with 2001-02-27 build ***
Steps to reproduce:
- set up news account;
- go File|Subscribe;
- check a couple of newsgroup to subscribe ( bug for the painfully slow process
was already entered on it);
//note: there is no newsgroups under news.mcom.com, you have to re-start Nscp6
to see the effect

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

For some reason, on all platforms, we're missing the twisty icon now next to the
newsgroup server (which creates this bug.)  Build 2001022805 Win2K, and Linux
2001022808.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

This is working for me using builds 2001030308 on Windows 2000 and build
2001030221 under Mandrake 7.2 with KDE.  Marking worksforme.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Re-opening.  This seems to work off and on, I just tested again with the same
build (2001030308) and now news.mcom.com won't display its newsgroups.  (But
news.mozilla.org works fine.) This is strange, indeed.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

related to bug 69684 possibly.  

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1+

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Somewhere in Bugzilla is a patch I wrote for the Location bar. That also doesn't
update when you subscribe to newsgroups on a newly added server. However it does
update when you subscribe or unsubscribe newsgroups on an existing server. Could
this be a problem with the RDF not reflecting the update correctly?

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting.  this is related to bug #66018

I think this problem will show up if you migrate a profile and then go use the
subscribe dialog in the same session.

damn, I hate bugs #66018 and #70494

Comment 8

[achimha]

I do not think this is realted to migrating profiles. I can reproduce it every
time on OS/2 for both freshly created and migrated profiles. Restarting Mozilla
shows the arrow.

Comment 9

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

In GetCacheElement, the Get on m_cacheElements is failing and createIfMissing is 
nt set, so GetCacheElement returns a failure.

nsMsgFolderCache::GetCacheElement
nsMsgDBFolder::GetFolderCacheElemFromFileSpec
nsMsgDBFolder::ReadDBFolderInfo
nsMsgNewsFolder::UpdateSummaryTotals
nsMsgNewsFolder::GetSubFolders
nsNntpIncomingServer::WriteNewsrcFile
nsNntpIncomingServer::CommitSubscribeChanges

Comment 10

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*** Bug 72350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

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*** Bug 71228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

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This bug is still existing on my 3 machines - Mandrake 7, Mac OS 9.1 and 
Windows 2000.  The 2 bugs I marked DUPs of this, bug 72350 and bug 71228 are 
supposed to be fixed, but I still have to perform the workaround, namely, close 
mail/news and re-launch Mozilla.  Then, and only then, do my subscribed 
newsgroups (from news.mozilla.org on port 119) show up.  

Comment 13

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BTW, I created all new profiles on those machines, with today's builds and 
still the problem was exhibited.

Comment 14

[Joe Knasin]

Can anyone tell me if I'm experiencing the same bug or should report a new one?
 description is somewhat vague on this one.  I'm seeing the following on win32
2001031915 (first build I've had the problem with):
after subscribing to a group, it seems to work ok, but the group never shows up
and there is no way to read any newsgroups whatsoever with this build.  this
happens no matter what I use for a news server.  news is completely broken in
this build!

Comment 15

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Seth, can you look into this please.  In it's current state News will _appear_
broken to the majority of 0.8.1 users.  Without a fix it will get little or no
testing in the Milestone.  

Tested latest 0.8.1 candidate 031915 (appears in the trunk as well).  I can
create a news server fine.  I can open the subscribe dialog and subscribe to
newsgroups fine.  Hitting OK dismisses the subscribe dialog as expected but the
newly subscribed groups are not reflected in teh server pane.  I still see the
icon for a new server with no twisty and no subscribed groups.  A restart of the
entier App makes the groups appear.  After that initial failure to appear all
additional subscribes are reflected fine without a restart.

Comment 16

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 72654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Blake Ross]

0.8.1 critical, targetting appropriately.

Comment 18

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I'll look into this today. 

I'd like to fix this for 0.8.1, how much time do I have?

Comment 19

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Seth, we'd like to have any fixes in before tomorrow morning's (hopefully) final
builds.  Also, I noticed on Mac that I cannot subscribe to most of the
newsgroups on n.p.m.* still. The OK button depresses but is not dismissed so
subscribe can't happen (modern and classic). 

Comment 20

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testing a one line fix...(at least for this problem)

once I land this, I'll go take a look at the other problems you just mentioned.

Comment 21

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cool, the fix works.  here comes the patch.

I'll land it on both the trunk and the branch.

Comment 22

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Attachment: the fix

Comment 23

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that patch has been sr=mscott

can I get an a=?

(I'll explain the problem next)

Comment 24

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

a=asa (on behalf of drivers) new bug filed as bug 72750

Comment 25

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fix checked into the tip, I'll mark it fixed when I land on the .0.8.1 branch.

Comment 26

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fixed on both the branch and the trunk.

Comment 27

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Verified fixed in build 2001032304 Mac OS 9.1, build 2001032308 on Mandrake 7.2 
with KDE 2.0 and build 200103204 on Windows 2000.  Subscribe works from a fresh 
profile.