145855 - Mozilla Crashes if alarm goes off while calendar is closed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[David Bate]

Mozilla crashes during an event notice.  Set event notice to report # minutes in
advance and Mozilla crashes with talkback at set minutes before event.

Comment 1

[Colin Phillips]

*** Bug 145856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[David Bate]

Additional info..   This occured when calendar was closed.  I reinstalled with
latest mozilla 1.0+ build and calendar and now calendar will give notice when
open and do nothing when closed.  Don't know why it crashed before when calendar
was closed.

Comment 3

[David Bate]

After 30 minutes of playing with the snooze and so on..  Mozilla is crashing at
the time of an advanced notice for an appointment when calendar is closed.  Fine
when calendar is open.

Comment 4

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Probably a backend issue: Taking.
Davebate: Can you provide a step by step reproducable case. For example:
1)Create event. 2)Set alarm to 1 minutes before, ....
Also can you please report the calendar build id ( Available in 'About' menu item)

Comment 5

[David Bate]

Calendar version is 2002051315-cal and the Mozilla is presently Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020520.

1-created the event for 15 minutes or so.
2-setting the alarm different values from 1 to 10 minutes or so.
3-first test with calendar open..  -OK
4-test with calendar closed..  -failed error...
5-alternated with calendar open and closed.

Just a small note, from last night.  After my last re-install last night..  I
did new tests and it seemed as if for the first 5 tests, it was fine..  
Received notifications while open and nothing while closed.  Then I started
getting the error.  But maybe one in five would not fail while calendar was
closed.  Only once did I get an error while calendar was open, only once..

Each time it crashed, talkback took over and sent error package....  Will be
updating to latest 1.0.0 build later today..

Comment 6

[Chris Charabaruk]

*** Bug 146402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Chris Charabaruk]

Only difference is that Moz crashes on me whether or not Calendar is open,
whenever a notification is issued.

Comment 8

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

It crashes for me if Calendar is closed only. If its opened it's not.

Comment 9

[Matti Finkler]

I installed calendar on Mozilla 1.2b. Install went fine, calendar opened
but no function was operating (new event, import, day/week/month etc).

This is a nice "bug" - software just doesn't do anything!

So, I tried to close calendar. Mozilla crashed completely. I repeated this
quite a few times - same behavior. There is no way to uninstall calendar
so I was forced to uninstall Mozilla 1.2b and reinstall ver 1.1 final.

This makes it 2 bugs here.

Comment 10

[Markus Freericks]

same for me. installed the newest mozilla (Mozilla 1.2b: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows;
U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016) on top of a previous 1.1;
installed the newest calendar. unable to create a new calender or do anything
useful; when closing calendar, instant crash & talkback.

Comment 11

[Markus Freericks]

this might help to find the bug: when i try an operation in the "dead" calender,
the javascript console always displays "Error: gCalendarWindow has no properties".

also, a friend just installed a fresh mozilla & calenendar, and it works fine on
his machine. so it should in connection with a previous installation (either
calendar or mozilla). deleting the .ics files, and removing the old calendar
preferences from the prefs.js file, didnt help either.

Comment 12

[Mike K]

Same deal. Windows 2000 system. Calendar 200292002 worked fine with Mozilla
1.2A. Installed latest build and clicking calendar resulted in empty grid with
no month names, dates, or functionality. On close, resulted in error "The
instruction 0x027d9432 referenced memory at '0xae1600ae'. The memory could not
be written." It also triggered the Netscape problem reporting system. I
replicated by uninstalling and reinstalling of 1.2b (which worked fine upon
reinstall) until I again added latest calendar (resulting in same effect).

Comment 13

[Mike K]

I reverted to the Moz 1.2a build and the new Calendar build works like a charm.
Definitely an issue with Moz 1.2b on Windows 2000.

Comment 14

[Mike K]

Sorry to be a broken record. On a separate Win XP Pro machine with Moz 1.2b, I
installed the 2002111311 and am experiencing the same problem. Calendar opens
and presents only a blank grid. Context menus appear on right click, but
selecting options has no response (i.e. context menu disappears on click, but
performs no action). Exiting Calendar crashes all open instances of Mozilla and
generates a Talkback. Is this a Windows build problem or have any Linux or Mac
users had a similar problem?

Comment 15

[doug redecopp]

Don't know if this is related-calendar does not appear to load-then when exit
Mozilla...Mozilla will not start from desktop. Had to restart windoze to launch
Mozilla. Running Mozilla 1.2.1 installed latest windows build (Jan 7, 2003) and
win98se

Comment 16

[Mike Potter]

*** Bug 190578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Mostafa Hosseini]

This has been fixed in cvs now. If alarms go off while calendar is closed it
won't crash Mozilla anymore.

Comment 18

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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