259597 - Crash if JVM plugin used and accessed file has a "." in its name.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223600

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Pete Toscano]

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

If I have the JVM plugin in my ~/.mozilla/plugins dir and try to write a
message, if TB 0.8 tries to access a file with a "." in it -- such as using
~/.signature as  the signature file or when attaching ~/file.ext -- TB will
crash when the file's accessed with the following error:

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

This happens on access, so, if I use ~/.signature for my signature file and I
hit the "write" button, TB will crash shortly after opening the composition
window.  If I attach the file "file.ext", TB will crash when I try to send.

I can rename any of these files to not include the "." and things will work fine.

I can also remove the JVM plugin from ~/.mozilla/plugins and it'll also work fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a JVM plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins
2. Click "write"
3. Attach a file with a "." in the name.
4. Click "send"

Actual Results:  
Crash.  Message printed to the console:

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


Expected Results:  
It should have sent the message with that file attached.

This is with no extensions loaded and a feshly-created profile.

Comment 1

[Marcelo Vanzin]

The same happens here in the same situation (TB 0.8 on Linux).

I tried adding the line FireFox uses to disable Java:
user_pref("security.enable_java", false);

To TB's "prefs.js" but it seems to ignore it, the problem still occurs. If the
signature file does not have a dot in it, all works fine.

Comment 2

[Ron Alexander]

I have duplicated this behavior. Same steps to reproduce. Both sig files and
attachments.

Comment 3

[Ron Alexander]

And my information is:
TB 0.8 (20040913) 
FC1 Linux

Comment 4

[Marcelo Vanzin]

It seems that more people are having this same issue:
bug 259473
bug 259482 
bug 259492

Comment 5

[Ron Alexander]

bug 259482 and bug 259492
could definitely be merged with this one.

Comment 6

[Paul Walker]

It could be that I've missed it, but I haven't seen any indication in the bug
reports that this problem is being worked on. It's fairly major, I would say -
do we have any ideas when it will be fixed? Is it worth trying a current nightly
build or something?

Comment 7

[Ron Alexander]

What can I do to get this to a confirmed state? What can I do to get this merged
with the other bugs that are duplicate. This is a pretty severe problem. I tried
to open an email in my inbox with a file called 'names.tab' attached today and
crashed. Same error as always.

Anyone?

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223600 ***