152953 - Chrome registration fails in cross-compiled ARM Linux build

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87965

(Core Graveyard :: Skinability, defect)

Description

[Dan Rosen]

I am attempting to get Mozilla to work on the iPaq, running the Familiar Linux
distribution (http://familiar.handhelds.org). I'm running an Embed 0.9.7 build
(created from embedding/config), which partially works. One of many problems I'm
hitting is that chrome registration seems to fail on startup:

  *** Chrome Registration of skin: Checking for contents.rdf at
  jar:resource:/chrome/embed.jar!/skin/classic/communicator/
  WARNING: Trying old-style manifest.rdf. Please update to contents.rdf.,
  file nsChromeRegistry.cpp, line 2031

The embed.jar file does contain skin/classic/communicator/contents.rdf, and when
I compile it for my i386 host (rather than cross-compiled for arm-linux), I do
not get these warnings.

Further warnings include:

  WARNING: chrome: failed to get base url for chrome://global/content/xul.css --
  using wacky default, file nsChromeRegistry.cpp, line 543

  WARNING: CSSLoaderImpl::LoadSheet: Load of URL
  'chrome://global/content/xul.css' failed. Error code: 6,
  file nsCSSLoader.cpp, line 1291

  WARNING: CSSLoaderImpl::LoadAgentSheet: Load of URL
  'chrome://global/skin/scrollbars.css' failed. Error code: 6,
  file nsCSSLoader.cpp, line 168

I suspect the problem might be in libjar, but that's just a first guess.

Comment 1

[Dan Rosen]

I've attached a log of assertions to bug 152955, for the big picture...

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] back 2026-04-08]

You want to apply the patch from bug 87965 which was fixed long after 0.9.7

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87965 ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] back 2026-04-08]

Even if you fix the libjar problem you'll still get warnings since your
installed-chrome.txt references chrome jars I don't think you have in an
embedding setup. I assume you can live with assertions for development work,
otherwise remove installed-chrome.txt references to jars you don't want.

Comment 4

[Dan Rosen]

Great! Thanks for the sharp eyes, dveditz :)