219726 - crash when clicking on entry in Preferences helper applications list

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Loren Rosen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

brower crash when using Preferences dialog

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select Mozilla->Preferences... from menu bar
2. select Helper Applications
3. click on one of the listed file types

Actual Results:  
Mozilla crashed. No stack trace. Following message in console.log:
*** malloc[306]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x1d050; This could be
a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try
setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug

/Applications/Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla-bin: can't map file:
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/MRJPluginCarbon.plugin ((os/kern) invalid argument)



Expected Results:  
bring up info on helper app as usual

Comment 1

[Loren Rosen]

since user-agent does show this:
using MacOS 10.1.5

Comment 2

[Loren Rosen]

crash apparently also erased my bookmarks file

Comment 3

[Loren Rosen]

Here's an easy way to reproduce this:
1. create a new profile, and start mozilla with it
2. using preferences, create a helper application entry, and save it
3. now try to select the new helper entry. Mozilla will crash

Also, the crash apparently corrupts the bookmarks. If you save some bookmarks
before editing preferences, and later re-start with this profile, they will be
gone. Moreover subsequent bookmark changes will not be saved between quit and
re-start, and attempts to drag-and-drop onto the bar that has 'Home' and
'Bookmarks' simply cause Mozilla to beep and do nothing.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you please attach the OS X crash log from this crash ?

Comment 5

[Loren Rosen]

No crash log appeared. Last saw one from a Mozilla crash in February. Have never
seen talkback work on OS X.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I meqan with "crash log" not the Talkback report.

Comment 7

[Loren Rosen]

Right... I meant I've seen neither crash logs on the console or talkback reports
from Mozilla in some time. The most I've seen are messages on the console log as
I reported.

BTW this crash still occurs with the latest nightly build.

Comment 8

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Loren, you don't see a message like this (if you clear the console before you
repro the crash):

"dyld: .../.../Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla-bin Undefined symbols:
.../.../Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/components/libimgicon.dylib undefined
reference to _ReleaseIconRef expected to be defined in ApplicationServices"?

If you do, this should have been fixed in the latest builds by the fix for bug
213639.

Comment 9

[Loren Rosen]

I did see a message like that. But with the latest build I don't anymore, and it
doesn't crash (at least, not from trying to editing the preferences).

Comment 10

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Marking fixed, since the linkage-issue where fixed by the check-in for bug 213639.

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> reopening

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

it's unsure if that patch fixed this bug -> wfm

Comment 13

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

*** Bug 222710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***