9170 - [PP] Regression: Alert message!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 8244

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

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RE: Linux (1999-07-01-08 m8)
From the prompt window of the yesterday and today's builds, an Alert message
comes up in a loop:
Alert!   did not find a converter of decoder.
This comes up every time I select a mail server or folder.
I do not see it on w32 or mac

Comment 1

[lchiang]

Seth says this has to do with missing images and is not really a mail specific
problem.  Seth - pls add appropriate comments (since you know about why this
is happening) and reassign.  Scott also mentioned he saw this.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

I'm going to reassign this to Hyatt.  This started showing up with the new
scrollbar.  I don't have a Linux or Mac here to tell what the message I get is,
but it mentions the up and down gifs of the scroll bar.

Comment 3

[David Hyatt]

I don't believe this has anything to do with my code.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

Do you have an idea on whose code this would be?  Eric's or Pam's?  I've never
seen this on Windows.  On my machine I get this on startup rather than whenc
clicking on folders.

This is really more annoying than harmful, as far as I can tell.  So I can try
to provide more input on this tomorrow.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

The message is:

"Alert:  Alert! did not find a converter or decoder
nsDocumentBindInfo::OnStopRequest: Load of URL
'file:////builds/.../dist/bin/res/samples/scrollUp.gif' failed.  Error code: 1.

There's a similar one for scrollDown.gif

Could someone with a Mac respond to this.  I'm pretty sure it beeps which is
pretty annoying which means I don't think we could live with this for 9 more
weeks.

Maybe there's something wrong with the gifs that were added?

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I see the problem on Mac!

Comment 7

[David Hyatt]

Do the gifs only show up on Windows?

Comment 8

[David Hyatt]

Do you see scrollbar arrows in the vertical scrollbar in the thread pane?

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

On Linux, at least, the gifs show up, which is why I find the Alert message
surprising.  Unless the alert message show is itself a bug.

Comment 10

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Maybe this is a netlib problem, such that the appropriate decoders cannot be
found for GIFs under some circumstances? We certainly see the same alert
elsewhere.

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8244 ***

Comment 12

[lchiang]

marking verified as a duplicate.  I'll track the other bug.  Also, I'll add this
to the release notes for M8 since the other bug has a target milestone of M9.