Lost all my tabs in seamonkey sidebar.

Bug #410495 reported by Ed Iglehart
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: seamonkey

On one occasion of starting seamonkey (browser only), I was informed there were no tabs for my sidebar, and it's been blank and useless ever since. How do I get my tabs back?

The tabbed sidebar was very useful, but where did the tabs go?

I still have my bookmarks (imported from firefox), but they're not in the sidebar

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: seamonkey None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/seamonkey.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: seamonkey
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

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Ed Iglehart (tipiglen) wrote :

It has happened again! I had it solved for some time. I had found a "panels.rdf" file in /usr/share/seamonkey and copied it to /home/ed/.mozilla/default/********.slt/ and everything worked fine until today.

Now I get the following message on starting seamonkey:
"The sidebar is currently empty.

You may add tabs by clicking on the "Tabs" button above.

If you would like to completely hide.....etc...."

I've re-copied the panels.rdf file into the profile from the source, but when I close seamonkey and re-start it, the above message re-appears, and I find there is no panels.rdf in the profile. There is, however, a "lock" file of 15 bytes. On attempting to read it, I get the following:
"The Link "lock" is Broken. Move it to Trash?
This link cannot be used, because its target "127.0.1.1:+4695" doesn't exist."

I suspect I must have Seamonkey closed before copying the file because something in the closing of it must be causing the problem.

This is really irritating in an otherwise excellent browser.

Revision history for this message
Ed Iglehart (tipiglen) wrote :

Changed permissions on panels.rdf to read only. Problem apparently solved (for the moment).

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