167859 - crash when attempting to download iCal [@ nsExternalAppHandler::SetUpTempFile]

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, defect)

Description

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020909
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020909

i was hoping to download brand new software (iCal) with my brand new software
(Chimera 0.5.0), but my attempt failed in crash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch Chimera Navigator.
2. visit http://www.apple.com/ical/download/index.html
3. fill out the form.
4. click Download iCal
Actual Results:  
at this point, Chimera crashes. 

Expected Results:  
launched the downloader and saved the file.

i'm not sure if this is actually a problem with the downloader or with something
arcane in the way Apple has constructed the downloading page/form.

Comment 1

[Jon Hall]

I can't reproduce this. 

After I click download I am prompting to save the file, then after choosing a
location the download proceeds normally. I'm currently running on an iBook
700MHz, 128 MB, running 10.2.

Comment 2

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

more system specs:

i'm running Jaguar on a PowerBook G3 Firewire.

i tried this several times and got a crash. i had been using Chimera comfortably
for most of the day and had visited a variety of sites. maybe i can try to get a
trace.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

a stack trace is worth a thousand words, given that i did this yesterday myself
and it worked (0.5 build, 10.2), albeit it was my desktop, not my pismo powerbook.

Comment 4

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

ok, can you give me a quick starter guide to doing a stack trace on Desktop
apps? i've done them before on *NIX command-line apps. do i just run Chimera
from Terminal or something?

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Thomas, see [http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/osxinfo.html], particularly
"Enabling Crash Reporter in OS X *10.1*."

Comment 6

[Chris Petersen]

I wasn't able to reproduce either using the 2002-09-11-05 build under 10.2
(6c115). Tested on Power Mac G4 Dual 800.

Comment 7

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

Attachment: stack trace of crash

i still get the crash. same steps to reproduce. trace attached.

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

WorksForMe using Chimera/2002090913 on 10.1.5.

Comment 9

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

so is it possible that it's an architecture issue? has anyone else tried it on a
PowerBook G3, yet?

Comment 10

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This happens when IC has no setting for your default download folder (which can
happen for new 10.2 accounts). It was fixed yesterday.

Comment 11

[Chris Petersen]

Reporter,

Please check with the latest build.

Chris

Comment 12

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

well, unfortunately, i've since set my Download location, and i don't know of an
easy way to unset it.

Comment 13

[Chris Petersen]

verified

Comment 14

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 170409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***