Problem starting Seamonkey

Posted October 30th, 2009, 1:08 pm

I'm having a strange start-up experience since today's nightly update. If I try to start from the Quick Launch short-cut or a Desktop short-cut I get a crash. However if I start from cmd or from the Seamonkey folder, Seamonkey starts correctly.
Crash report

edit: Hold that thought it seems to be OK now. Restarted 10+ times with no crash. Only thing I did prior to it working again was exit and restert Google desktop.

Posted November 2nd, 2009, 7:16 am

The latest nightly crashed for me yesterday whenever I tried to start it the second time. The zipped Win32 version that was.
A fresh startup - without a profile - all went without problems: it asks what to import and then runs normally. But shut down and restart and it crashes all the time. Until I delete the profile diretory.
Haven't tried today's nightly yet.

Posted November 2nd, 2009, 9:04 am

OK, now I'm getting start-up crashes again.
Again, it's when using any short-cut (desktop or quick launch).
When I use command prompt it mainly works, although sometimes it first crashes but then goes fine if I use the Restart Seamonkey button. Changing profiles makes no difference for me.
Can't find anything in bugzilla.

edit: This Bug report 52554 has similarities.

Posted November 2nd, 2009, 2:43 pm

(your bug # didn't make it)

Posted November 2nd, 2009, 3:17 pm

therube wrote:(your bug # didn't make it)

Thanks. Fixed now.

Posted November 3rd, 2009, 4:16 pm

oorwullie wrote:
therube wrote:(your bug # didn't make it)

Thanks. Fixed now.

are u sure, oorwullie? I'm still getting crashes with yesterday's SM 2.1a1pre nightly build I downloaded. But when I run it in "Safe Mode" instead of normal mode, it does not crash.

I'll try today's SM2.1a1pre nightlies to see if the crashes are gone.

Posted November 3rd, 2009, 5:25 pm

Heh.
In his original post the link he posted was invalid.
The "Fixed now" is that he fixed his link. The bug remains :-)

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Posted November 3rd, 2009, 5:47 pm

therube wrote:Heh.
In his original post the link he posted was invalid.
The "Fixed now" is that he fixed his link. The bug remains .

ok. i've misunderstood his comments. SM2.1a1pre 20091103 nightly build still crashes in normal mode but not in safe mode.

I'll just use the older 20091029 nightly build for now which doesn't have any crashing problems when launching 2.1a1pre in normal mode and not just in safe mode.

Posted November 4th, 2009, 4:55 am

@ therube. Thanks again.

@ 4td8s. I get around the start-up problem by using windows cmd to open the 2.1a1pre nightlies.

Posted November 4th, 2009, 3:07 pm

oorwullie wrote:@ 4td8s. I get around the start-up problem by using windows cmd to open the 2.1a1pre nightlies.

well that didn't work on my XP SP3 computer, oorwullie. the crashes seem to be worse on my machine than on yours.

tried running seamonkey.exe (2.1a1pre nightly builds 10/30 to 11/03) from the windows command line but still crashes on start-up.
it's only when I run seamonkey WITH the -safe-mode switch from the cmd line that I got it to work but no addons were loaded.

but no matter now as I've decided to use the 2.1a1pre nightly build of 10/29 that didn't have the start-up crashes.

Posted November 5th, 2009, 9:10 pm

I got that crashes often. After crash sm crashes immediately on next start.
Then I start sm in safe mode, and then it work again for a time.

Posted November 6th, 2009, 12:13 pm

Seems to be a problem with the extension JavaScript Debugger. Disabling this add-on will allow Seamonkey to start.

Posted November 6th, 2009, 1:27 pm

oorwullie wrote:Seems to be a problem with the extension JavaScript Debugger. Disabling this add-on will allow Seamonkey to start.

mcsmurf says:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525544
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525481

I see you have already commented in one of the bugs.

Phil

Posted November 6th, 2009, 3:27 pm

Philip Chee wrote:mcsmurf says:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525544
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525481

I see you have already commented in one of the bugs.

Phil

Yea, and thanks for that second bug. I couldn't find any more than the first one.

Posted November 7th, 2009, 8:22 am

oorwullie wrote:Seems to be a problem with the extension JavaScript Debugger. Disabling this add-on will allow Seamonkey to start.

incredible that the Javascript Debugger addon (version 0.9.87.4) is the cause of the crashes for the SM 2.1a1pre nightly builds from 10/30. AND this is the same EXACT version of the Javascript Debugger addon included in SM 2.0 final.

time for that addon to be updated/revised to fix the crashes. so I expect newer nightly builds of SM 2.1a1pre to bundle newer versions of the Javascript Debugger extension.

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