39873 - 05/18/00 nightly binary crash

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Neelakanth Nadgir]

05/18 nightly binary crashes when i try to add a new mail account account.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xff202a44 in nsSimpleCharString::nsSimpleCharString ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#0  0xff202a44 in nsSimpleCharString::nsSimpleCharString ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#1  0xff20510c in nsFileSpec::nsFileSpec ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#2  0xff20424c in nsDirectoryIterator::nsDirectoryIterator ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#3  0xff20b280 in nsDirectoryIteratorImpl::Init ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#4  0xfb9ffbe8 in nsMsgServiceProviderService::Init ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/components/libmailnews.so
#5  0xfb9c9d10 in _start ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/components/libmailnews.so
#6  0xff21be18 in nsGenericFactory::CreateInstance ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#7  0xff219518 in nsComponentManagerImpl::CreateInstance ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#8  0xff221b5c in nsComponentManager::CreateInstance ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#9  0xff2227e8 in nsServiceManagerImpl::GetService ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#10 0xff222c20 in nsServiceManagerImpl::GetService ()
from /disk2/neel/tmp/package/./libxpcom.so
#11 0xff222fbc in nsServiceManager::GetService ()

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

I just started getting this yesterday as well. The fix is pretty easy - just do 
a null pointer check in the mail ISP code.

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

[dogfood+]

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

fix checked in.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

[e-mail] - is this working for you now?  We don't have a Solaris machine 
to try this on. Thanks.

Comment 5

[Neelakanth Nadgir]

Yes, it works.
Thanks

Comment 6

[lchiang]

thank you.  I'll mark verified then.