259482 - Name of Signature file causes crash

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Manuel Metz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.8 (20040913)

I use a file name "username.signature" as signature file for my mails. This kind
of name causes Thunderbird 0.8 to crash (0.7.3 worked fine):

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the JVM manager
System error?:: Success

Renameing the file to usernamesignature (without the ".") solved the problem.
This problem does not appear for TB 0.8 under Windows.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use a signature file named "user.signature"
2. open the message compose window

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird crashes with the follwowing error message:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the JVM manager
System error?:: Success

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

same error-message also present in bug 259473 and bug 259492

Comment 2

[Paul Walker]

Confirmed here - x86 Red Hat Linux 9.0, standard install from TB tarball.
Problem visible with and without Enigmail; no other extensions installed.

The signature file I use is ~/.signature. As suggested in
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=127175, using ~/signature instead
stopped Thunderbird crashing whenever I tried to compose a message. (~/signature
is a symlink to the original.)

Comment 3

[Koike Kazuhiko]

*** Bug 253835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Reproduced with Thunderbird 20041001/Linux.

Comment 5

[Koike Kazuhiko]

20041015/Linux doesn't crash.

Comment 6

[Manuel Metz]

(In reply to comment #5)
> 20041015/Linux doesn't crash.

20041103/Linux - Thunderbird 0.9 now also works fine for me ...

Comment 7

[Iain]

The FIFO Bug (253835) which was marked as a duplicate of this one, still happens
for me in Thunderbird 0.9.  That is, when I set the signature to ~/.signature,
which is a FIFO that has a perl script watching (and filling) the other end,
when I click on new mail, thunderbird locks up.  At least now it doesn't use
100% cpu like it used to, but it still locks up (~50% cpu, no screen updates, no
response, etc).

Comment 8

[Adam Hauner]

Marking WFM regarding reporter's comment #6. (mis-duped bug was reopened)