120987 - Crash on Windows 2000 while opening Calendar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 117982

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Emanuel Gull]

When I click on the tasks-Calendar menu item I often get the following error: 
The pointer at 0x0331d2c2 points to the memory at 0x00000018. The 'read' 
process could not be finished. (translated from German - the error message 
might not be the same in English)

I find it very funny that this error message doesn't always appear, but just 
every now and then. I wasn't able to figure out why and where it crashes, but 
I'm working on that.

I'm using a mozialla that I built myself based on a 0.9.7 source package with 
the calendar sources of Jan. 19th. The same error also appeared with a mozilla 
built on a more recent source package.

I'll try to debug the problem this afternoon; I'll keep you informed.

Comment 1

[Emanuel Gull]

Here's the newest debug information: I'm getting an 'unhandled exception in 
mozilla.exe (XPICAL.dll): 0xC0000005 access violation' error.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

I think this is probably John's bug.

Comment 3

[John Gray]

Its probably crashing while reading the .oecalendar file.  Please attached it to
this bug.

Comment 4

[Emanuel Gull]

Attachment: Your requested .oecalendar file

Here's your requested .oecalendar file. Renaming it to oecalendar really solves
the problem! So the bug seems to be connected to this file.

I have an additional comment: in Windows, this file should definitely NOT be
named .oecalendar. The reason for that: Winows filenames MUST contain a letter
in front of the dot. It is e.g. not possible to rename "oecalendar" to
".oecalendar" without usint the command line.
I propose that this file should be named C:\oecalendar, maybe with the Windows
'hidden' flag set to produce the same result as on Unix.

Comment 5

[John Gray]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117982 ***

Comment 6

[Matt Perry]

Verified dupe

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!