253804 - "Check for new messages at startup" crashes if Inbox summary .msf file is corrupted [@ nsPop3Sink::FindPartialMessages ]

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Max Alekseyev]

Linux build 2004072806

The crash occurs on MailNews startup if "Check for new messages at startup" is
on and Inbox summary (.msf) file is corrupted.

I found the following workaround:
1. Switch browser to Offline
2. Open MailNews
3. Click on the problematic account Inbox and allow MailNews to reconstruct
Summary file
4. Switch Browser/MailNews back to Online
5. Check for new messages

I have a talkback incident record for the crash but TalkBack fails to send it.
Talkback reports "Network Error: Receive Failed". No idea what that means. Other
network applications are working fine.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #0)

> I have a talkback incident record for the crash but TalkBack fails to send it.
> Talkback reports "Network Error: Receive Failed". No idea what that means.   
   > Other network applications are working fine.

I assume that means the Talkback server is down. The message is stored in the
Talkback profile of this browser, and sending will be retried next time you
start that browser online. It won´t be sent if you install and use another nightly.
On windows, if I start talkback.exe in the components folder, I can see the
queued messages waiting to be sent, and I also can start sending.

Comment 2

[Max Alekseyev]

TalkBack ID: TB456362K

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

confirming for investigation - this works for me, but I'll try it some more.  I
assume INBOX.msf is out of date, and not actually corrupted...

Comment 4

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

stack:

nsPop3Sink::FindPartialMessages() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/mailnews/local/src/nsPop3Sink.cpp,
line 692]
nsPop3Sink::BeginMailDelivery() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/mailnews/local/src/nsPop3Sink.cpp,
line 329]
nsPop3Protocol::GetStat() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/mailnews/local/src/nsPop3Protocol.cpp,
line 1763]
nsPop3Protocol::ProcessProtocolState() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/mailnews/local/src/nsPop3Protocol.cpp,
line 3492]
nsMsgProtocol::OnDataAvailable() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/mailnews/base/util/nsMsgProtocol.cpp,
line 660]
nsInputStreamPump::OnStateTransfer() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/netwerk/base/src/nsInputStreamPump.cpp,
line 710]
nsInputStreamPump::OnInputStreamReady() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/netwerk/base/src/nsInputStreamPump.cpp,
line 339]
nsInputStreamReadyEvent::EventHandler()
PL_HandleEvent() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/threads/plevent.c,
line 692]
PL_ProcessPendingEvents() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/threads/plevent.c,
line 627]
nsEventQueueImpl::ProcessPendingEvents() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/threads/nsEventQueue.cpp,
line 395]
event_processor_callback() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/widget/src/gtk/nsAppShell.cpp,
line 191]
our_gdk_io_invoke() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/widget/src/gtk/nsAppShell.cpp,
line 78]
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0xea56 (0x40291a56)
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0x1003d (0x4029303d)
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0x104f4 (0x402934f4)
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0x10724 (0x40293724)
libgtk-1.2.so.0 + 0xa025f (0x4019f25f)
nsAppShell::Run() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/widget/src/gtk/nsAppShell.cpp,
line 322]
nsAppShellService::Run() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/xpfe/appshell/src/nsAppShellService.cpp,
line 489]
main1() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/xpfe/bootstrap/nsAppRunner.cpp,
line 710]
main() 
[/builds/tinderbox/SeaMonkey-Release/Linux_2.4.2-2_Clobber/mozilla/xpfe/bootstrap/nsAppRunner.cpp,
line 1801]
libc.so.6 + 0x157f8 (0x403ba7f8)

This is the only crasher that TB reports with that stack

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

basically check for null parser

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

should be fixed now.

Comment 7

[Max Alekseyev]

The crash has indeed gone. But there is still some consequences. See bug 254947