Hello, I'm new to this list so I will first apologize in advance in case
I'm not following some rules that the list may have (though I haven't
seen such in the welcome message).
Now I will try to describe the strange behaviour that my Seamonkey
2.49.5 (in Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS) is showing since a couple of days. I'm a
long time user of the Mozilla browser genealogy (started in 1993 with
Mosaic, then Netscape, then Mozilla Suite, then Seamonkey) and I had
never seen such a thing. Everything started when I almost run out of
space in /home disk. Suddenly there were only a few MB left when I
started to quickly move some big files to some external units, but I
guess my opened Seamonkey at some point run out of space and began
showing some errors when trying to save some email message in some Sent
folder.
Anyway, after freeing some GB in the disk, the problems strangely
continued, being the main of them (and the only that is always present
since the begining of this failures) that many of my mail accounts,
though present at the left pane of the Mail window, now have no small
black triangle at the left so I cannot access their folders, nor compact
them, nor receive or send email from them. The other accounts appear to
be ok, but sometimes they give various kind of errors when sending or
receiving (Unable to write a copy... Unable to apply filters... Cannot
connect to server...) that just disappeared when I retry a second
afterwards. The curious thing is that the accounts that seem to be
broken are all together - I mean my first 8 accounts are OK and then the
rest are unaccesible. I thought it was a thing about the 9th account,
that somehow could be broken and then made that Seamonkey could not
follow "reading" the rest, so I recreated it (now it appears at the
bottom, in the usual oldest first / newest last order) and copied all
the mail files and folders from the original "broken" account. At first
it fixed the problem and I could see them and use them at the next
start, but after that, when I closed Seamonkey and started again they
had lost the tiny triangle so I couldn't display their folders nor use
those accounts in any way. I tried that for the first 2 non-usable
accounts, and then I gave up.
Another clear effect of this multiple failure is that when I click on
the mail icon at the browser to open the mail client window, it takes
far more than usual to open it (nearly half a minute or so, when it used
to take just a few seconds). I must explain here that I have 32
accounts, some of them with dozens of folders and subfolders, some of
them with thousands of email messages. But size had never caused me any
trouble nor quite a big delay in opening Mail or in showing accounts and
folders. I compact frequently.
Weird enough, on the second day the disease spreaded to the browser,
which showed quite randomly these failures:
- Mouse pointer sometimes changed shape to a different kind of pointing
hand icon.
- Sometimes, when writing some search terms on the location bar and
pressed enter to launch Duckduckgo with them, browser showed error
message that the web couldn't be found; when I press the Retry button
below, DuckDuckGo shows the results with no problem.
- Suddenly some pages lost some of the content, mainly texts (all or
just some) and I could only see some bullets, icons, backgrounds and
graphs. Some texts are converted to the usual square icon that browser
shows when it doesn't know how to render a charset. Other are just
missing from the page, leaving no trace at all. When I click on Ctrl+ or
Ctrl- then all content reappear.
- Tabs lost their name (magically disappear) when I moved the cursor
over them. Only sometimes.
After many restarts and tries, on the second day, Mail window changed
the available accounts: differently from before, now there were
available: the 1st, the 6th, 9th, 11th, and some others. All previous
tries showed available the first 8 accounts, and none of the rest of
them. Next time I started Seamonkey it was again the first 8 accounts OK
and all the rest showing no triangle.
Another strange behaviour that I detected only once is that the
spam-recognition engine suddenly began to send nearly all messages in
one of the available accounts to the spam folder, when it usually made
no errors before.
Things I have tried up to now:
- To remove MSF files of the non available accounts.
- To disable Enigmail (some of the errors of the first day mentioned
this add-on).
- To repair one by one all of the available folders of the available
accounts.
- To compact them.
- To start Seamonkey in Safe Mode.
- To look for read only permissions in the non available folders (I have
read it could be a cause for missing folders at Mozillazine's knowledge
base).
- To fscheck the unit (at boot time with touch command). I saw no error
messages.
- To look for strange folder paths at prefs.js (no path seems broken,
either). Nevertheless, a couple of times when I tried to "Browse" from
the Mail account settings to see the Mail folder of the first of the
non-available accounts, Seamonkey got freezed.
I seems a very bad case of corruption due to something happened in the
minutes that my disk became full, and that it has spreaded somehow to
the browser part of the suite. Though I haven't completly dismissed the
possibility of it being a bad blocks error not yet detected in my /home
partition. I have thought about reinstalling Seamonkey but I'm not sure
that it will fix the problem and I'm afraid it could cause some loss of
data or of long-time configs. Has anybody in this list ever experienced
such a freak multi-failure? Which are your recommendations or diagnosis?
Any help would be GREATLY appreaciated! Thanks a lot in advance.
(...and sorry for the long post but I tried to give as much info as I
could about the issue.)
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