201026 - DatePicker-Popup crashes sometimes the whole browser when writing back selected date into textfield

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198254

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Sascha Steiger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

The DatePicker Popup Script opens a window where a user can select a date which
should then be written back into a textfield. Sometimes the whole browser
crashes at this action.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click the DatePicker Icon
2. scroll randomly forward and backward (with <<,<,> and >>, and more than one time)
3. select a date. Sometimes it crashes here. (1 out of 10 times)

Actual Results:  
The browser crashes with an Application Error

Expected Results:  
It should write the selected date back into the textfield _every_ time ;-)

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Reassigning to Browser-General until we can get a stack trace;
until then we won't know what the right component is.

Sascha: do you have a Talkback-enabled build? If not, please download
one from our ftp site. When you crash, please complete the Talkback
form and submit it. Then run mozilla/components/talkback.exe to find
the "incident number". If you post that number here, we can look up
the stack trace of your crash and find the right component.

Meanwhile, I cannot reproduce the crash. When I go to the site with
Mozilla or IE6 and click on the DatePicker icon, the little calendar
form comes up blank. It just says,  "April 2003", and there is nothing
else; no calendar. Am I doing something wrong?

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

I can see the little calendar in NN4.7, but not in Mozilla or IE6...

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

very similar to bug 198737.

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

confirmed, this is the same calendar, check http://www.elvira.hu/cal.js
Propose to mark dupe of bug 198254 (by way of bug 198737) so that reporter gets
CC'd on bug 198254. Eventhough there's no stack, it's likely to be this one.

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

Finally got build 20030407 to crash (nightly) as a debug build didn't crash:
TB18906393W.

Comment 6

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: Stack trace from Talkback incident TB18906393W

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

Olivier is correct. The JS code here is the same as at
http://www.elvira.hu/cal.js. And the stack trace here is
identical to the one in bug 198737. Therefore marking this
bug as a duplicate of  bug 198254 (by way of bug 198737).

Sascha : thank you for this report. You will be cc'ed on
bug 198254 so you can follow progress on this problem -

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198254 ***

Comment 8

[Phil Schwartau]

> I can see the little calendar in NN4.7, but not in Mozilla or IE6...

By the way, now I CAN see the calendar in all three browsers. My
Windows box was in an unstable state and I had to reboot the OS -