206429 - ActiveX control problem in Windows 2003 Server Standard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190181

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: ActiveX Wrapper, defect)

Description

[Daniel Buus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030519 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030519 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Mozctlx.dll seems to register correctly (Regsvr32 reports success, and HTML-Kit
acknowledges the presence of Gecko ActiveX controls, instead of saying there's
no Gecko/Mozilla ActiveX control available).

When using the link found on mozilla.org that tries to embed Mozilla as an
ActiveX object in IE, IE crashes after a few seconds.

Using the Gecko preview option in HTML-Kit first gives an error dialog saying,
"Access violation at address 6010BC1f in module 'mozctl.dll'. Read of address
00000024. Clicking OK and switching to Explorer preview and back again to Gecko
preview yields a different symptom: A) A new dialog saying, "Browser is not in a
valid state." and B) A white background square containing the text:

The Mozilla control cannot
create a critical component.
This prevents the control
from functioning correctly.
Possible reasons for the
problem are:

1. The PATH environment
variable does not point to the
Mozilla bin directory.
2. The registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Softw

The text is cut off here, not reveiling the key, but reading up on this, I
assumed it's supposed to say that the \Software\Mozilla\BinDirectoryPath is
invalid or non-existing.

I edited the PATH sysvar and created a BinDirectoryPath key, but this does not help.

I tried installing the Mozilla 1.3.1 build, unregistering the Firebird
mozctlx.dll, and registering the Mozilla mozctlx.dll. This produces exactly the
same errors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Well, check the details. Of course, you probably have to use Windows 2003 Server
to reproduce the bug.




I have not changed anything in the browser(s) except for "normal" stuff like
privacy settings and cache size. The Mozilla install I did was 100% vanilla.

Comment 1

[Adam Lock]

I don't have Windows 2003 so I can't test, but the first thing to try is to run
Mozilla.exe and then try the control again. It could be an issue with the
component registry which is causing the control to fail to create some critical
component.

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

Can you try my suggestion from the last comment and report back please? Thanks

Comment 3

[Adam Lock]

One further question, are you registering the control in the GRE (i.e. a net
installed browser), or from a zipped up browser which you have unpacked somewhere?

Comment 4

[Adam Lock]

Hi, can I have some feedback for my questions. Otherwise I will probably mark it
as a dupe of bug 190181 which deals with GRE problems.

Comment 5

[Adam Lock]

Duping against bug 190181

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190181 ***