224961 - Crash (page fault) in SOFTOKN3.DLL when trying to send a mail.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Thomas Berg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.4a 20031026 w GetAllMsgs extension

When trying to send a mail Thunderbird crashes in SOFTOKN3.DLL with a page fault.
For at least some mails (if not all where the abend occurs) this can be repeated.
I can sometimes go around this with "reediting" the mail at next try (copy/paste
a bit different etc.).  It seems to happen when I copy paste something into the
mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose a new mail.
2.Paste something into it.
3.Try to send the mail.
Actual Results:  
Page fault in SOFTOKN3.DLL.

Expected Results:  
Sent the mail.

Comment 1

[Thomas Berg]

Attachment: Img of a crash.

An example.

Comment 2

[Thomas Berg]

Attachment: Img 2 of crash.

Exmaple 2 of a crash.

Comment 3

[Thomas Berg]

With Thunderbird 0.4a M2 2003-11-05 I still get these crashes.  At least one is
repeatable (haven't tried if the other is repeatable).

Seems to be related to if I have pasted at a part of the text into the compose
window.  It doesn't help to edit the text afterwards.

Any interesting traces I can produce ?

Comment 4

[Thomas Berg]

I *think* I have found the culprit.  I used a file monitor and discovered that
the last file access before the abend was secmod.db.

I deleted secmod.db and restarted TB.  So far, after several tests and restarts,
no abend.

Could it be that the format of secmod.db have changed between builds ?  (Besides
common file corruption.)

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

the format should not have changed but maybe something bad got written in there. 

Please re-open if this happens again.