40459 - can't display message: loop in box asserts

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

When I bring up the mail window in today's build, and click on a message header,
I get a seemingly infinite series of asserts and never see the mail message (at
least, it hadn't appeared when I gave up, though perhaps it would have had I
waited long enough):

###!!! ASSERTION: A Box's child is constantly growing!!!!!: 'passes < 10', file
/builds/moz/mozilla/layout/xul/base/src/nsSprocketLayout.cpp, line 461
###!!! Break: at file
/builds/moz/mozilla/layout/xul/base/src/nsSprocketLayout.cpp, line 461

This may be the same problem as in bug 40294, but I'm reporting it separately
since the two cases referenced in that bug are startup-time dialogs.

Marking as a blocker because I can't repro my dogfood bug regarding mail replies
without being able to view a mail message.

Comment 1

[andreww]

not sure if it's related, but I can get this assertion as well if I try placing 
this code in a xul file :

         <menulist editable="true">
            
              <menupopup>
                <menuitem data="0" value="Do This"/>
                <menuitem data="1" value="Do That" />
                <menuitem data="2" value="Do Some Other Thing" />
              </menupopup>
              
             
            </menulist>
This editable menulist element is not yet supported, but perhaps it might help 
tease out the problem looking at the current XBL.

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

Andreww says he's seeing his test case on Mac, so this isn't Linux only.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

this sounds like it's not a mailnews bug.  Reassigning to evaughan who can 
perhaps help us track down whose bug it is. FWIW, I don't see this on Windows.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

per Akkana's comments, mark this dogfood

Comment 5

[leger]

Putting on [dogfood+] radar 

Comment 6

[Eric Vaughan]

fixed

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

resolving as fixed

Comment 8

[lchiang]

akkana - ok for you now?

Comment 9

[Akkana Peck]

Looks fixed to me.