1031237 - Building a nightly resulted in a build with window which is not responding to clicks or search commands on the home page. No elements below the main search bar were responsive.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[durgaprsd04]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140627194317

Steps to reproduce:

install firefox using the instructions given here using ssh from another pc. 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Build_and_Install



Actual results:

I got a firefox executable in /src/obj/dist/bin, . I started it with ./firefox under the directory and then a nightly build window pops up . This window is unresponsive to any search requests or any clicks(on preferences addons and so on) .The only responsive thing is the search bar and other elements at the top. I haven't installed firfox in my pc. 
I just build it and executed it. My pc is a dell with 4Gigs of RAM 500GB hard disk and I am using ubuntu  14.04 fresh install. 


Expected results:

All the clicks and search requests must have been responsive

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

That page has terrible instructions. I've asked the MDN folks to redirect it to the actual docs. Use:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions

instead.

More generally, can you attach your mozconfig file, if you used one, and detail if, when you download a regular build downloaded from www.mozilla.org, that build does work?

Comment 2

[durgaprsd04]

I didn't use any .mozconfig file. When I did the same in another pc without ssh it kinda worked.So it may
be a trouble with ubuntu 14.04.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to durgaprsd04 from comment #2)
> I didn't use any .mozconfig file. When I did the same in another pc without
> ssh it kinda worked.So it may
> be a trouble with ubuntu 14.04.

Can you provide information on what was different about the system where it didn't work? Without more information we don't really have a good way to figure out what the issue is and/or how to fix it, and we should mark the issue incomplete.

Comment 4

[durgaprsd04]

I have built firefox atleast 3 times hoping this would happen. Fortunately it ain't. For ease of reproducing the bug I will brief what I did.
1. Downloaded firefox at 19/06 about noon from mozilla central. 
2. Extracted it to a folder under ~/Public
3. I left the system and 'ssh'ed  into it from another system with same config same os and all. 
4. Started building firefox as told earlier( using make -f client.mk)
5. And I started firefox in the other system(in dist****/bin/firefox) 
6. None of the buttons or fields were responsive expect for the search and menu bars at the top.

As I mentioned earlier building using the same nightly build in a different machine with same specs and that too through ssh I didn't end up with such a firefox . So I would assume it had something to do with machine used earlier. I have the same nightly with me. I will try it once again and if no trouble I will put it up here. I assume it is OK.

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to durgaprsd04 from comment #4)
> I have built firefox atleast 3 times hoping this would happen. Fortunately
> it ain't. For ease of reproducing the bug I will brief what I did.
> 1. Downloaded firefox at 19/06 about noon from mozilla central. 
> 2. Extracted it to a folder under ~/Public
> 3. I left the system and 'ssh'ed  into it from another system with same
> config same os and all. 
> 4. Started building firefox as told earlier( using make -f client.mk)
> 5. And I started firefox in the other system(in dist****/bin/firefox) 
> 6. None of the buttons or fields were responsive expect for the search and
> menu bars at the top.
> 
> As I mentioned earlier building using the same nightly build in a different
> machine with same specs and that too through ssh I didn't end up with such a
> firefox . So I would assume it had something to do with machine used
> earlier. I have the same nightly with me. I will try it once again and if no
> trouble I will put it up here. I assume it is OK.

Do you know if the build used GTK 3  rather than GTK 2, perhaps?

Comment 6

[durgaprsd04]

Dunno!. How could I know this?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

durgaprsd04 can you still reproduce this?

Comment 8

[Kim Moir [:kmoir] ET]

no response to ni, please reopen if this is still an issue