Closed Bug 76663 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Can't relaunch without reboot on WinME

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P2)

x86
Windows ME

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 53952
mozilla0.9.2

People

(Reporter: lord, Assigned: law)

References

Details

At home, I'm running a recent build of Mozilla on WinME.  

If I crash or close the Mozilla client, I sometimes cannot restart it.  I click
on the icon, the hourglass appear, a Mozilla process gets started, but nothing
happens.  I don't even get the splashscreen.  I've let it sit for a long time
with no results.  Killing that process and trying again does not help either.

The only solution I've found is to reboot the machine.  Then Mozilla launches as
normal.

This never happens on my Win2k machine.  It happens on my WinME machine daily.
Severity: normal → major
OS: Windows 2000 → Windows ME
could you please follow the steps at 
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/dependency-walker.html and attach a zip 
(application/zip) of dwi files from a normal and hung mozilla? 
Whiteboard: catfood
When this happened just now, I tried to reboot the system.  The system reported
that the process "NSPR event receiver" was not responding.  I killed it, and
Mozilla started up.
"NSPR event receiver" is no longer part of NSPR.  It is in
xpcom/threads now (in the files plevent.h and plevent.h).
pass onto vishy... maybe he or someone on his team can investigate...
Assignee: asa → vishy
Do you see mozilla.exe or netscp6.exe left around in your task manager? i.e. the
process never really exited? 
Usually no.  There are those cases where a process has not closed down, but this
is a different case.

Since I run into the problem almost daily, I wonder how long it would take to
reproduce it.  I'm probably being too hopeful, but maybe having someone
open/close the client a few dozen times on WinME would do the trick.  I suspect
that's not sufficient to trigger this problem, but it might be worth a try.


*** Bug 79870 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Keywords: nsbeta1
nav triage team:

Paul, can you try to reproduce this on one of our inhouse ME machines
sounds like bug 53952
thats a good point. reassigning to law who owns 53952. 
Assignee: vishy → law
Keywords: nsbeta1nsbeta1+
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.2
*** Bug 77721 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Priority: -- → P2
Whiteboard: catfood
Lisa - do you know who has an windows ME box that we can use to reproduce this 
problem? thanks, Vishy
Yes, nbaca has one.  Please contact her.
I'm willing to bet that this is (was) a dup of bug 53952.  If you can reproduce 
in a current build, please re-open.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53952 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified dupe.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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