194105 - general protecton fault in GDI.exe whenever I run a search

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Z]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.3b

Google crashes everytime I run a search. It's only google, Yahoo, et al work
fine. An illegal operation message appears and in the details section, it says
Mozilla has caused a general protection fault in GDI.exe. No themes, or plug-ins
were installed, it was a fresh download of Mozilla (tried several versions with
the same result) on a fresh Win 98 install.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.google.com
2.run a search
3.get error message

Actual Results:  
It crashed with the same gpf as described above.

Expected Results:  
Run the search.

general protection fault in gdi.exe

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

-> Browser-General

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

Dan, the build of Mozilla you are using is too old to log bugs against.  Please
upgrade to the latest Mozilla release (1.3b) and enable talkback.

Please reopen this bug report if the problem continues and you have a talkback id.

Comment 3

[Dan Z]

It happens in every version, including 1.3b.

Comment 4

[Chris Lyon]

Talkback id?

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

WFM, 2003030505, pre-Mozilla-1.3, Windows 98.

Reporter, reinstall Mozilla into an empty subdirectory. Can you then reproduce
the problem?

Comment 6

[Dan Z]

Yes, it still happensn when it is installed to an empty subdirectory.

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 210294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Have you tried a new graphic card driver ?

Comment 9

[edson]

I have had the same situation and I know what seems to be the issue.  This issue
does not occur with Windows XP.  It only seems to occur under 98/ME.  The
problem occurs with a page with foreign language character sets that are not
installed on the computer.  Under Windows XP for the equivalent page will have a
'?' where the foreign character is.  Under 98/ME it crashes GDI.exe.  I had the
exact problem and it occurred only on certain pages but it was consistently
occurring on those pages.  This also happens also with Netscape 7.1 on the exact
pages.  Another page it occurs on is www.alexa.com.  There are a couple of
Korean or Japanese characters on that page.  Anyway, for 98/Me the solution is
to install those character sets from Windows Update and then the problem will go
away.  For Windows XP even without the foreign character sets this problem does
not occur.  Another solution is for Mozilla/Netscape to fix the problem. BTW,
this problem does not occur at all in IE5 for 98/ME even without the foreign
character sets installed.  

Comment 10

[Bob Berg]

It's not only pages with foreign character sets.  I can force the crash by 
performing a Google search.  I don't even get the search results, and I don't 
think Google uses foreign language characters on its result page.

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Dan Z : which graphic card Do you use ?

Comment 12

[edson]

actually google does have foreign characters on its search results pages.  If
you do the search for google while on the google page you will see that there
are Chinese or Japanese characters in the third result from the bottom of page
1.  I still think it is related to not having a foreign character set installed
that the browser is trying to load.  

Comment 13

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 210294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Without a stack trace or specific reproducible steps, this bug isn't much use.

Comment 15

[Tom Hartsook]

Using 1.5, the URL http://sunsolve.sun.com, causes a GPF in GDI.EXE.  We
searched the page source using LINUX mozilla for foriegn characters, and found
some peculiar graphics characters entered as html entities, ex:  &raquo.

Comment 16

[Anders Pedersen]

WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040330
Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4

Comment 17

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040412 on original
bug report.  Based on commentary, marking as WORKSFORME.

Mr. Hartsook, the conditions for the crash you describe are very different.  If
you can reproduce with a recent nightly, please do so and file a new bug.