1278969 - Firefox crashes when trying to run Addon Tests: tests/desktop/test_themes.py

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1278605

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[pavlina.vatseva+github]

Attachment: Problem_details.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

On Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 using Firefox 47.0:
1. Go to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Running_Web_QA_automated_tests
2. Follow the steps up till Step 6
3. Go to the Addon-Tests folder using Terminal
4. Execute in Terminal the following command:
py.test --driver=Firefox tests/desktop/test_themes.py



Actual results:

1. Firefox crashes with the "Firefox quit unexpectedly." error
2. Click on Report... and look at the "Problem details and system configuration" - I've copied the details in the attached file


Expected results:

The Firefox Addon-Tests "test_themes.py" run with the Terminal command from step 4 (from the steps to reproduce) should have been properly executed.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Null-pointer crash, so not security-sensitive.

Whimboo, can you help triage when you're back? See also bug 1278924 which seems like it might be related.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

See also https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium/issues/2110