230505 - Browser crash with an error from libaccessibility.so

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Chris Croome]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.23  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031202

OS:

  $ uname -piorv
  2.4.22-1.2140.nptl #1 Tue Jan 6 20:20:25 EST 2004 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
  $ cat /etc/fedora-release
  Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)

Browser version:

  $ rpm -qi mozilla
  Name        : mozilla                      Relocations: /usr
  Version     : 1.5                               Vendor: Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
  Release     : 2.rhfc1.dag                   Build Date: Tue 02 Dec 2003 17:07:12 GMT
  Install Date: Mon 05 Jan 2004 15:40:30 GMT      Build Host: localhost
  Group       : Applications/Internet         Source RPM: mozilla-1.5-2.rhfc1.dag.src.rpm
  Size        : 39175153                         License: MPL/NPL/GPL/LGPL
  Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 02 Dec 2003 22:47:35 GMT, Key ID a20e52146b8d79e6
  Packager    : Dag Wieers <[e-mail]>
  URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/
  Summary     : A Web browser.
  Description :
  Mozilla is an open-source Web browser, designed for standards
  compliance, performance, and portability.

To crash this version of Mozilla, go to this page:

  http://editor.testers.mkdoc.com/2004/january/mozilla/

  Username:     mozilla
  Password:     mozilla

Then click the 'Content' link at the top of the page and Mozilla crashes.

When I run Mozilla using GDB:

  $ MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla-1.5 \
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla-1.5:/usr/lib/mozilla-1.5/plugins" \
  MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla-1.5/plugins" \
  FONTCONFIG_PATH="/etc/fonts:${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/res/Xft" \
  gdb /usr/lib/mozilla-1.5/mozilla-bin

  (gdb) run

I get this report on the crash:

  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  [Switching to Thread -1084778176 (LWP 22724)]
  0x05129f3c in nsRootAccessible::GetEventShell(nsIDOMNode*, nsIPresShell**) ()
     from /usr/lib/mozilla-1.5/components/libaccessibility.so


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the address: http://mozilla:[e-mail]/2004/january/mozilla/.admin.
content
2. Browser crashes
3.

Actual Results:  
My broswer crashed

Expected Results:  
No crashed, I haven't had this problem with 1.4

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No crash with linux trunk build 2004-01-04-08....

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

WFM LInux 2004012207 and a GTK2/xft cvs build from a few days ago.

Comment 3

[Sven Krohlas]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040202
Reopen if your opinion is different and you are able to reproduce this with a
current build.