On 11/8/2019 11:41 AM, Manuel Casal Lodeiro wrote: > 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.) >
It is possible that your "full" disc problem affected the installation of SeaMonkey or corrupted it. If this is true, then even SeaMonkey's profile was impacted. In that case, I suggest the following: 1. Uninstall SeaMonkey and delete its profile. 2. Restore the prior version of SeaMonkey and its profile from a backup. (You do backups, don't you?) I assume that you did not have this problem with the prior version. 3. With a cleaned up primary disc -- with plenty of space -- install SeaMonkey 2.49.5. Note: I an running Windows 7. The above is how I would resolve a similar situation on my PC. I have two physical drives: a 112 GB solid-state drive (SSD) and a 931 GB spinner disc. The SSD is partitioned between my primary C-drive (which contains Windows and those applications that insist on being installed on C) and an alternative drive that is intended for non-Windows applications including SeaMonkey. Over 6 GB of the SSD remains unallocated (in no partition). I carefully monitor how much unused space remains on each partition of the SSD. When the space drops below 10 GB, I add more space from the unallocated reserve. The spinner is reserved for data including SeaMonkey profiles, which I characterize as data. Also, a quirk in how my PC was initially setup by someone else, the spinner also contains Office. Currently 2/3 of the spinner is unused; it has no unallocated space. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Duracell batteries are prohibited in my house. They leak and have severely damaged some expensive electronics that I own. Energizer and Everready batteries are okay. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
