1048700 - "Restart" in Breakpad doesn't restart the app

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

The "Restart" and "Quit" buttons (or radio buttons?) in Breakpad have the same effect: neither of them restarts the app.

I've noticed this in the following version of SeaMonkey; there's no newer Linux version at ftp.mozilla.org

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 SeaMonkey/2.27a1 ID:20140214003001 c-c:1ce77c2f9bd0 m-c:d275eebfae04

I have also noticed it a few days ago in Firefox 24 ESR. I haven't tried the Nightly (Trunk) version of Firefox.

I suppose that killing the app with SIGSEGV or SIGILL would raise Breakpad, but I'm not sure I'd be well-advised to send such a bogus crash report to Mozilla just to see if Breakpad restarts that version of the app; or even worse, to send as many of them as necessary to bisect the error if I can find a "good" build earlier or later than the ones I tested.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I just tested with Firefox 31 (the default browser on Ubuntu 14.04) and "Restart Firefox" works here. I also tested with a nightly build and it worked fine there as well.

You can kill -ABRT <pid> to test, FWIW.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Ted Mielczarek [:ted.mielczarek] from comment #1)
> I just tested with Firefox 31 (the default browser on Ubuntu 14.04) and
> "Restart Firefox" works here. I also tested with a nightly build and it
> worked fine there as well.
> 
> You can kill -ABRT <pid> to test, FWIW.

I'll test it further here, not immediately but probably today, and report here.

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20140805 Firefox/24.0 ID:20140805000540 CSet:bce71a749a08

(with my usual Fx24ESR profile) is BAD, even in Safe Mode and even without "Send crash data to Mozilla" (kill -6 i.e. SIGABRT).

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 ID:20140805030300 CSet: 7f81be7db528

in a "testing" profile (not really virgin but almost), with kill -6 and without "Send to Mozilla" is GOOD, even in non-Safe mode.

I suppose I'll just have to wait until SeaMonkey Linux builds resume...

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

I suppose the fix must have landed between Mozilla 30a1 (Sm 27.7a1) of 2012-02-14, and Mozilla 31 (Fx31) release; but I cannot pinpoint the bug. If you find it this can be marked DUPLICATE.

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

s/2012/2014/