71041 - Moz hangs on startup on both my Win2000 machines

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Philip Willow]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    20010305

I test the browser builds daily and for the past week or so they hang on 
startup.  NB after this happened 0.8 also doesn't startup anymore.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Happens on both _my_ Win2000 machines.  Assume not widespread or you'd have 
fixed it by now.

Actual Results:  Browser hangs on startup.

Expected Results:  Browser doesn't hang on startup.

Not sure what special config. issues there could be.
I generally run the nightly builds daily so is it possible one of them had a 
bug which messes up the registry or something?
Also I installed the latest JDK from Sun but the nightly which crashes doesn't 
even have the plug-ins installed.

Sorry for the lack of detail I only use the browser as a single application - 
if there are more detailed steps to test the components I'd be happy to do them.

Comment 1

[Eric S. Smith]

Seeing something similar on NT.  As I recall, I didn't even update my copy 
between the last time it worked and the time that all of them started not 
working, but I can't be sure.

In my case, it doesn't even get as far as the splash screen:  it starts, churns 
for a few seconds, and then I have a "mozilla.exe" process that doesn't do 
anything (except take up a line in the task manager display...).

I deleted my user directory and the registry in c:\winnt and unzipped into a 
fresh directory, which has usually solved this sort of problem for me in the 
past.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

another corrupted profile removing the profile worksforme per reporter's comments.  

Hello,

Deleting the Mozilla directory from "\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application
Data" fixed the Hang-On-Startup problem.

I kept the bad folder if you'd like to look at it.

Best regards,

Phil.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Verified wfm (win2k, 2001050204).