Closed
Bug 102645
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
Warning msg from WINWORD.exe randomly occurred
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Simple MAPI, defect, P2)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
WORKSFORME
mozilla1.0
People
(Reporter: yulian, Assigned: rdayal)
References
Details
(Keywords: crash, dataloss, Whiteboard: [ADT NEED INFO])
Attachments
(2 files)
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bugzilla
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review+
mscott
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superreview+
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
steps to reproduce:
1. Set up mail account in Mozilla test profile.
2. Launch Mozilla and select the test profile
3. In Prefs, select "Use Mozilla Mail as the default mai l application"
4. With Mozilla running, launch MSWord and attempt to send an email
5. In Mozilla Mail dialog, enter username and password or just enter username
6. Hit Enter
7. Warning shows: WINWORD.exe was generated error and will be closed by Winows.
You'll need to restart the program.
Is this crash in winword happening all the time?
Which version of MS Word do you have?
Reporter | ||
Comment 2•23 years ago
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It's MS Word 97 SR-2.
It happened to me less than a couple days ago. Probably only once today.
This occurred to me today:
win32 2001-10-01-05-094 build
Word 97 SR-1 version
WinNT 4.0
This was the very first time I had tried to send via MS Word since I set the
Netscape client as the default. Second time is ok.
The problem with this bug is that you can lose your MS Word data if you try to
send page prior to saving your changes in Word.
cc: jaime to discuss in PDT.
Keywords: dataloss
Updated•23 years ago
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Whiteboard: [PDT]
Comment 4•23 years ago
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for quite sometime now i've been working on trying to isolate a testcase which
would duplicate this problem but have not been able to isolate it. i've tried
first time installs of both Simple Mapi enabled apps and mozilla, tried various
combinations of Office 97 & 2000, and have tried multiple scenarios with
switching default email clients, and still haven't been able to isolate the
testcase to generate the error everytime. the steps described initially do not
generate the error all the time. there were many cases where i installed the
test build on a new machine(no prior smapi-enabled test builds) and sent a doc
through WINWORD without any problems.
i'll continue to try to look for a testcase, but until we're able to isolate the
problem and provide a testcase which WINWORD fails consistently, its tough to
determine the severity at this point.
Comment 5•23 years ago
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Hi, Lisa:
Can you help to get us a reliable testcase to repro this bug? Thx.
I will try. At yesterday's PDT, it was suggested to look through the MS site to
see if they have any technotes on known problems with this type of crash and mapi.
I cannot reproduce this. Will keep trying.
Suggest: in release notes, to suggest to the user to save their document prior
to sending.
Comment 10•23 years ago
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From two other people who have seen this. It sounds like this problem happens
the very first time trying to set up for mapi and sending.
Comment 11•23 years ago
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sheela and suzanne - can you add your scenarios to this when you saw the crash?
Comment 12•23 years ago
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I had never set up mapi before on my system. I installed NS 6 with a clean
profile, and when I launched mail I selected the option to "Make NS Mail my
default mail".(Which I beleive set the option to turn on mapi in prefs).
I had the browser up with mail at the time, then I launched Word, Wordpad and
Excel one at a time, trying to "send" to our mail from each of those apps. In
all cases I crashed out of those apps with a similar application error. (I'll
attach the error before the crash)
Comment 13•23 years ago
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Comment 14•23 years ago
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PS. After I set up Outlook express,and sent mail from it successfully,I then
exited Outlook express. Next, when I exited and restarted NS 6.2, Mapi send
worked for me (with our mapi prefs option set on).
Comment 15•23 years ago
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Commercial Branch build: 0.9.4-2001-10-11-10 win98
Running MSWord 97 on the machine.
I had never set up my machine for MAPI. I was using a profile that was migrated
from 4.77 to 6.2. I installed the build and launched that profile. Netscape
browser and mail both were open. I then launched MSWord. Created a new test
document. I did not save the document. From the file menu I clicked on sent to
recipient.
Result: This program has performed illegal operation and will be shut down" OK
I clicked on ok and the word app closed.
I also tried this not launching the application first like I did in the previous
scenario. I opened word and typed a document and tried to send. But resulted in
the same crash.
The work around suzanne mentioned here is the same thing I did for it to start
working onwards.
Comment 16•23 years ago
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I think I have a consistently reproducible case for a crash..but it is in
MS Frontpage 2000 (v 4.0.2.2717)
Every time I send to our mail via mapi with a html file created in Frontpage, I
can successfully send the file thru our mapi, but it will (within Frontpage)
report in a dialog "An unmamed file was not found". When I click OK to the
dialog, after a few seconds more, Frontpage will crash with the error I attached
earlier. Other apps such as Word and Powerpoint don't give this crash or
dialog. (I am on a Win 2k box)
This happens every time for me.
Assignee | ||
Comment 17•23 years ago
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I have the solution for the Front Page crash. This is happening for the similiar
reason why WordPad is displaying the error message when sending unsaved document
(bug # 104091).
MS Office apps and WordPad creates a temp file for unsaved documents and send
the path name for this temp file as well as the real file name for it to
MAPISend. However, FrontPage decides to do this even for saved docuemnts !!
Now all these apps try to delete the temp file they created and behave
differently when they do so. MS Office apps donot display any error messages
when they donot find this temp file created for the sole purpose of the
messaging app, WordPad displays an error message whereas FrontPage decides that
it is very severe and crashes.
As I mentioned in bug # 104091 there is a simple fix, rather than us moving the
temp file to our moz_mapi temp dir (which we did for performance reason in case
of large files) and rename with real filename we make a copy of this temp file
with real filename in our moz_mapi temp dir.
Please find the fix in the patch below.
Assignee | ||
Comment 18•23 years ago
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Comment 19•23 years ago
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Comment on attachment 53376 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for the fix for FrontPage crash and also Wordpad error msg
sr=mscott
I'd rather have slower performance than have us crash.
Attachment #53376 -
Flags: superreview+
Comment 20•23 years ago
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pls get the reviews, and let's see how it shakes out over the weekend ... can
this be checked in on sunday, if the PDT agrees it should go into 094?
Assignee | ||
Comment 21•23 years ago
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can i get a PDT+ on the patch, this solves a crash / dataloss ? If soon i can
check in today or weekend so that it is in Monday's build.
thanks, - rajiv.
Comment 22•23 years ago
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Rajiv - do you hypothesize that this fix may also fix the crashes seen in Word
as originally reported by this bug report?
Comment 23•23 years ago
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i'm gonna be careful with this one, and wait until the reviews come back, but if
they arev positive, we will give the PDT+ before sunday night.
Assignee | ||
Comment 24•23 years ago
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No no this is a fix for the FrontPage crash and Winword error message ONLY as i
mentioned on the patch too.
The Word crash problem looks different since it only happens the first time, i
am still trying to replicate it.
Comment 25•23 years ago
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I saw error messages similar to what scalkins@netscape.com has posted. On
EXCEL, Powerpoint, and MS Word. On Win NT. With the 10/12 branch build.
I'll try to repro on Monday.
Comment 26•23 years ago
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Comment on attachment 53376 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for the fix for FrontPage crash and also Wordpad error msg
R=ducarroz
Attachment #53376 -
Flags: review+
Comment 27•23 years ago
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JF: Thx for your stamp.
Comment 28•23 years ago
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Pls move the patch into the Wordpad bug 104091 and resolve it there. This bug is
for the winword issue.
Whiteboard: [PDT] → [PDT+]
Comment 29•23 years ago
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The patch has been copied to bug 104091, together with QA's description about
FrontPage crash, and Rajiv's explanation.
Comment 30•23 years ago
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Walkaround for this bug has been documented in release note, which suggests that
user save the doc before sending.
Comment 31•23 years ago
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PDT-, because this has a workaround, and it can not be consistantly reproduced.
Whiteboard: [PDT+] → [PDT-]
Comment 32•23 years ago
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Frontpage 2k no longer crashes with todays build when sending via mapi. No
error dialogs before the crash either. This was a consistent crash for me earlier.
verifying Win 32 2001-10-16-05 0.9.4 Branch
Comment 33•23 years ago
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Reassign to Krishna. Since Rajiv will be away from 11/10 to 11/26. Will start
working on this after completion of trunk landing.
Assignee: rdayal → kkhandrika
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.7
Assignee | ||
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.7 → ---
Comment 35•23 years ago
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nomianting because if dataloss and crash, when it happens ...
Keywords: nsbeta1
Whiteboard: [PDT-]
Updated•23 years ago
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Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.0
Assignee | ||
Comment 36•23 years ago
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Trix, can u please try to reproduce this one.
Comment 37•23 years ago
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ADT need info, does it happen, was the patch checked in?
Whiteboard: [ADT NEED INFO]
Assignee | ||
Comment 38•23 years ago
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the patch above (id=53376) has been checked in during trunk landing in Dec-Jan.
This does not happen anymore.
Trix, can u please verify this on trunk and 1.0 branch and close if you cannot
see this anymore.
Comment 39•23 years ago
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Worksforme Build ID: 2002042608 (0.9.9+) trunk Windows 98, Word 2000 SR-1.
Assignee | ||
Comment 40•23 years ago
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Changing status to works for me since could not be reproduced anymore.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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