115260 - xpcom.dll failing to find procdure entry point in xpcom.dll

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Jonothon Ortiz]

The procedure entry point ?ToNewUnicode@nsString@@QBEPAGXZ could not be located 
in the
dynamic link library 

xpcom.dll.

Comment 1

[Jonothon Ortiz]

Using mozilla build 12/14/2001; win32

Downloaded win32/talkback enabled and extracted; c/p'd to folder and ran - 
crashed. I do remember this problem happening to me once when installing 0.9.4 
but when I jumped over to admin it worked. I do have admin rights on the user 
this occured with. 

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: 
You used a zip build or the installer ?

Comment 3

[Jonothon Ortiz]

Attachment: Dr Watson dump from Mozilla

Dr Watson dump from Mozilla crash on 12/14/2001 build

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: 
And if you used the .zip, have you installed mozilla in a fresh directory ?
(not over an older build)

And please NEVER touch the target milestone field - thanks.

Comment 5

[Jonothon Ortiz]

Came from a zip file in a new directory. 

Just to see, installed 0.9.6 fresh (uninstalled mozilla 0.9.4, reinstalled 
0.9.6) and saw a couple of XPCOM.dll errors but no crash. I can't find the file 
where I logged the xpcom.dll errors but I will attempt to recreate.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

> Just to see, installed 0.9.6 fresh (uninstalled mozilla 0.9.4, reinstalled 
>0.9.6) and saw a couple of XPCOM.dll errors but no crash

That is a known bug with the uninstaller. Delete the mozilla direcotry manually
after you uninstalled mozilla.

Are you really sure that you unzipped the new build in an empty directory ?
(Can you retry it ?)
This error message means that you have old .DLLs in your mozilla directory which
are unused by newer builds.

Comment 7

[Jonothon Ortiz]

Yep, the uninstaller - thanks =)

I'll try to do better in the future searching through the previous bug reports.

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108515 ***

Comment 9

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Don't think this is a dupe, bug 108515 is specifically about using the installer.

Comment 10

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Unzipping over an old build is not supported, delete the old one first manually
or install into a fresh directory. This message can only come from components
compiled against an old version of headers.