262131 - tbird crashes when sending a mail message with .conf file attachment

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 141826

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

seen using 2004092905-0.8 tbird bits on fedora core 2. when I tried to send my
yum.conf file attached to a mail message, thunderbird crashed. it seems any
.conf file would do this --I created foo.conf (a text file) and it still crashed.

1. open a mail compose window (fwiw, I'm using plaintext compose and am sending
from an IMAP account to another IMAP account).

2. enter To: addressee, a brief Subject: and a little bit of text in the compose
area.

3. attach a .conf file. (click Attach button, pick file from file picker).

4. click Send.

expected: message should be sent.
actual results: message not send, then tbird crashes. no js console output or
talkback, but see the following in the shell:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the JVM manager
System error?:: Success

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

dupe of the JVM crash

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

not sure if this would be related to bug 255900 (since tbird linux builds are
gtk2 builds).

at first I though it might be due to the permissions set on the text file I
send, not its filename, whether it's 664 (crash) or 644 (no crash) --but no,
that doesn't seem to make a difference.

anyhow, will attach a sample file to test with.

also nominating --Trix or Marcia, are you able to repro this?

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

hrm, couldn't quite find an existing bug for this. Scott, do you mean bug
141826? the odd thing is that I'm attaching a plain text file...

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

Attachment: foo.conf plain text file

attach this file to a mail message and attempt to send it.

interestingly, if I rename it to something like foo-conf.txt, then attach it as
such, tbird sends it w/o crashing.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

oh, after reading the trail of dups, perhaps it is. would this then be dependent
on a fix for bug 153930?

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

plussing for now but I think this is just a dupe of the java plugin crasher

Comment 7

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

WFM with 20040929/win and a POP3 account.

It sent the attachment as text/plain

I uased the .conf attached to this bug.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

methinks the root of the problem is bug 141826 --so dupping.

the question is, how feasible would it be to fix 141826 before tbird1.0?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141826 ***