GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 112368
Infinite loop in mozilla notifiers (autoconfig_url)
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Marco's patch of 2003-05-04 re-enabling mozilla notifiers causes an inifinite loop to occur if you have the GConf key /system/proxy/autoconfig_url exists. I'm not too clear why - but at some point coming back out of setting up of this pref another call is made to mozilla_notifiers_init(). The patch attached will show some top-level debug info that let's you see what's going on. As a temporary fix affected users can use gconf-editor to unset /system/proxy/autoconfig_url and startup will proceed as normal. To reproduce the bug set this pref (Note: It doesn't have to have any specific value - just has to exist!)
Created attachment 16295 [details] [review] Patch showing the flow, and the infinite loop
Fixed in cvs. That was a great catch Lee :)