252429 - crash if last used profile is deleted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 245053

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[rich boakes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

When starting firefox with the -profilemanager option, if user chooses to delete
the profile which was used for the previous session, then the program crashes. 
Talkback then sends a report.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox using -profilemanager option.
2. Create new test profile.
3. Use "test" profile.
4. Exit firefox
5. Restart firefox using -profilemanager option.
6. Delete "test" profile, selecting the "delete files" option.

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes and sends talkback information.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have removed the "test" profile.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Can you give us a Talkback ID?

Comment 2

[Adam Hauner]

-> Firefox

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Please don't file bugs you can't reproduce in a current build.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245053 ***

Comment 4

[rich boakes]

Thanks Felix, I'm running Firefox on three separate machines and hadn't noticed
that this one had not been patched.  I can confirm that the bug is still present
in 0.9.2 - i checked it this morning as soon as I saw your message.

I can provide a talkback ID onto the other thread... if someone can tell me
where to find one - I have talkback set to automatically send reports at the
moment so I'm not sure I can see the details.

Comment 5

[Adam Hauner]

To get the Talkback ID's go to your mozilla directory and go to components/,
there start talkback.exe, it'll give you a list with the IDs. Thank's a lot.

But don't try to reproduce with Firefox 0.9.2, get really fresh build:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-0.9/

Comment 6

[rich boakes]

Attachment: Error seen when creating new profile in 2004-07-21 firefox build.

I've downloaded the 2004-07-21 build and can confirm that the initial bug
appears FIXED; however there seems to be a new one which pops up an application
error box when trying to use a newly created profile.

The text of the error box (in case anyone searches for similar) is:
"firefox.exe - Application Error
The instruction at 0x10cafeb referenced memory at "0x000d0004". The memory
could not be "written".  Click on OK to terminate the program."

After OK'ing, the error box closes and FFX appears to start up with the new ID
as normal.

I'm trying out the talkback thing as suggested to see if I can get a talkback
ID for it.

Comment 7

[Adam Hauner]

rich boakes: Submit new one as really new bug report.

Comment 8

[rich boakes]

submitted as new bug report: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252581