88973 - turbo mode selection fr0m installer results in hang at startup.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[chris hofmann]

ok,  I've been complaining about not getting turbo mode set up
right on my machine after selecting in the installer, but haven't
filed any bug...   I've finally figure out what has been going on
but haven't narrowed completely.

1. I selected the "allow fast start if possible" from the installon the 2001 06
27 08 build.

2. I have multiple profiles set up.

3. I also have the pref selection to allow both browser and mail
to start on launch.

With this combination on my win98 laptop when ever I click on the
desktop icon I can hear the disk spin like crazy for several seconds
and then if I look at task manager I see netscp6.exe not responding.
I have kill of the old process, and then everything starts fine.

I went into prefs |advanced and turned off turbo mode and now 
I can start without the hang.

Can we get someone else to try this combination of selections?

If it works ok, I'll try and dig deeper to see what else
on my machine might be causing the hang.

Comment 1

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

> 3. I also have the pref selection to allow both browser and mail
> to start on launch.

In order for that to work, prefs->EnumerateChildren(PREF_STARTUP_PREFIX,...)
would have to be used. Looking at the turbo code, that's not in the code path.
It seems what would happen would be that those prefs would be ignored. It
doesn't explain why it would hang though :-/

Comment 2

[selmer (gone)]

Hey Chris, I never noticed this bug was assigned to *me*!  Conrad, is this
something you can take first crack at investigating?

Comment 3

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Chris, considering that this was reported on 07-02, and so much has changed
since then, particularly with profiles, the installer and launching in -turbo
mode, can you see if this still happens for you?

Comment 4

[chris hofmann]

hanging problems seem to have gone away in recent builds.
now I just need to get the lastest build from the branch
to see if it honors my pref for launching both mail and browser
at startup.