1145082 - Publish a 64-bit version of crashfirefox.exe for Nightly 64 bits

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[pedrogfrancisco]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150318004012

Steps to reproduce:

I hanged Nightly 64 bits. Ran crashfirefox.exe .


Actual results:

Nothing happened ("Could not create remote thread.").


Expected results:

Nightly 64bits should have crashed.

Comment 1

[pedrogfrancisco]

Compiling for 64 bits on VS2013 solved the problem.

We thus need a crashfirefox64.exe

Comment 2

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Benjamin!

Is this something you could please help fix?

¡Gracias!
Alex

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

https://github.com/bsmedberg/crashfirefox-intentionally is the code. You can build it yourself pretty easily.

Comment 5

[pedrogfrancisco]

I did it (build it myself).

I was thinking of less savvy users trying to debug hangs, when Firefox 'official' goes 64 bits.

Comment 6

[alex_mayorga]

(In reply to pedrogfrancisco from comment #5)
> I did it (build it myself).
> 
> I was thinking of less savvy users trying to debug hangs, when Firefox
> 'official' goes 64 bits.

¡Hola Pedro!

Could you please post your .exe somewhere or better yet instructions to build oneself?

¡Gracias!

Comment 7

[pedrogfrancisco]

You need to have Visual Studio installed, clone the repo in https://github.com/bsmedberg/crashfirefox-intentionally.git and build it in 64 bits.

Comment 8

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Existing 'official' resources which lack the 64-bit version:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/How_to_Report_a_Hung_Firefox#Windows
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/utilities/crashfirefox-intentionally/

Comment 9

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I spent a few minutes futzing with AppVeyor and got it to spit out a 64-bit build:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/luser/crashfirefox-intentionally/build/job/oe0b55ardbgfkcuc/artifacts

Comment 10

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Ted!

Could you please put a copy over at https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/utilities/crashfirefox-intentionally/ ?

Now that blog posts such as https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2016/07/22/firefox-64-bit-for-windows-can-take-advantage-of-more-memory/ might spike 64 bit usage it might become handy IMHO.

¡Gracias!
Alex

Comment 11

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I don't actually know the process for doing that, but the binary from comment 9 is still there:
https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/oe0b55ardbgfkcuc/artifacts/x64/Release/crashfirefox.exe

Comment 12

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

bsmedberg: do you remember how you got the crashfirefox.exe binary published? Should be easy enough to grab the new binary and put it there as "crashfirefox64.exe" or something like that.

Comment 13

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I think I filed a releng bug and bhearsum put it up.

Comment 14

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Ben!

Could you please put https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/oe0b55ardbgfkcuc/artifacts/x64/Release/crashfirefox.exe over at https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/utilities/crashfirefox-intentionally/ ?

¡Gracias!
Alex

Comment 15

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

(In reply to alex_mayorga from comment #14)
> ¡Hola Ben!
> 
> Could you please put
> https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/oe0b55ardbgfkcuc/artifacts/x64/Release/
> crashfirefox.exe over at
> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/utilities/crashfirefox-intentionally/
> ?
> 
> ¡Gracias!
> Alex

I don't have permission to do this these days. Oremj or Jbuck, can one of you help out here? I'm not sure how we normally do one off uploads like this in the S3 world.

Comment 16

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

I have uploaded crashfirefox64.exe to https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/utilities/crashfirefox-intentionally/crashfirefox64.exe

Comment 17

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Jon!

Just tested it and it crashes Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0 ID:20171019100107 beautifully =)

¡Gracias!
Alex