230362 - Download manager causes crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 235537

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Mark Cooper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040107
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040107

Using the download manager to handle downloads or selecting it from the Tools
menu causes mozilla to crash. In both cases the download manager window *border*
is displayed but the contents of it are not filled in and at this point it crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mark Cooper]

Attachment: Copy of downloads.rdf

Deleting and re-starting Mozilla fixed the crash problem

Comment 2

[Mark Cooper]

I've just found out that I can fix the problem by deleting the downloads.rdf
file and re-starting Mozilla. The download manager now works fine! :)

I've attached a copy of the old downloads.rdf for debug purposes.

Comment 3

[Andreas Moser]

I occasionally download to a drive which is not always connected to the system
(removable). If this drive is not present, and there are still pending and/or
completed downloads in the download manager, then the download manager and the
browser will crash (always reproducable). But if the drive is connected and
mounted, no error occurs. Conclusion: Download Manager is unable to handle
missing/disconnected/unmounted drives.

Comment 4

[Andreas Moser]

I confirm that deleting downloads.rdf is a workaround but the bug is still there
after you download to a removable (or network) drive, which is unavailable
(disconnected) later.

Comment 5

[Patrick]

Symptoms and workaround are the same as in bug 235537 -> duping.

If this still occurs in the latest nightly then reopen this bug and indicate
what's different from bug 235537.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 235537 ***