174399 - Mozilla crashes when trying to create email with an attachment

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[John Nealy]

When composing an email, as soon as I click the attachment button in the toolbar
or choose that option from the menu, all open Mozilla applications (browser and
email) crash.  Using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1)
Gecko/20020925 built from NetBSD package sources (mozilla-1.1nb1)

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you post stack trace using GDB and/or reproduce this with latest nightly build ?

Comment 2

[John Nealy]

Running mozilla with gdb gives the following:
 :
 :
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
----------------------
PrepareDocumentForEditing
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x485cde92 in memcpy () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
(gdb) q
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
$

Comment 3

[thebeastwitheyesthatstared]

still happening with newer version(s)?
(bug cleaning)

Comment 4

[Sean Witham]

I have seen a similar problem with Thunderbird 1.0 running on Windows XP service
pack 2. 

It is currently repeatable since this power up, no idea when the last time was
that I succesful sent an attachment so I can't check what has changed since then
and I don't know if the problem will be reproducable after after after I reboot yet.

The only diference with XP is that thunderbird locks up rather than crashes but
I exepct this is more to do with the the XP kernel VM rather than the bug is
different. 

I don't think my install has the reporting agent in (plus I don't know how to
force a core dump to be sent) so any advice on how I can help would be
appreciated (while the bug is still reproducable).

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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