268420 - Calendar extension crashes on startup with Thunderbird .9

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Hauber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10.1

After loading Thunderbird .9 and the latest Calendar xpi (11/4/2004 build)
calendar crashes on startup and crashes Thunderbird as well.  I believe this is
due to a calendar event with an alarm that want to notify on startup.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an event with an alarm that will want to notify you on startup of calendar
2. Launch Thunderbird
3. Launch Calendar

Actual Results:  
Calendar will crash and will crash Thunderbird as well.

Expected Results:  
Both should have been running normally.

Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Does it crash or hang?
Does it wok if you remove the calendar data from your profile? (or try a
different profile)

Comment 2

[Tom Hauber]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does it crash or hang?
> Does it wok if you remove the calendar data from your profile? (or try a
> different profile)

Calendar and Thunderbird crash.

I have not tried removing the calendar data, but I have had limited success
removing and then resinstalling calendar.  This gets calendar to work one time
only.  The second and subsequent times you attempt to launch calendar the crash
reoccurs.

Comment 3

[Tom Hauber]

After migrating my profile to a new profile I was able to function normally.  I
will advise if this persists tomorrow.

Comment 4

[Tom Hauber]

(In reply to comment #3)
> After migrating my profile to a new profile I was able to function normally.  I
> will advise if this persists tomorrow.
Calendar is not crashing upon startup.  I am experiencing additional crashes
that I will report on another bugzilla report.

Comment 5

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Tom,
Since you are no longer experiencing this issue, can we close this bug?

Comment 6

[hahn]

Please do not close, I can confirm this bug on

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Mozilla Calendar 0.8.1+

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an event with alarm in the future.
2. Make sure calendar.alarms.showmissed is set to true.
3. Open calendar after the alarm was due.

Results: 
1. All missed alarms beep.
2. A window frame without contents for the alarm appears.
3. Firefox crashes. Error message on the command line:
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 1676 error_code 2 request_code 12 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Workaround: in about:config, set calendar.alarms.showmissed to false.

Comment 7

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Please do not close, I can confirm this bug on
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
> Mozilla Calendar 0.8.1+
>
What is the build ID of that calendar version?

Comment 8

[jrplanck]

I encountered the same problem. I had this problem with Tbird 0.8-1.0. and all
Calendar versions. I do not know if alarms are related or not. It would crash on
the first use after succussfully installing and running the extension.

I was able to resolve the problem by migrating to a new profile and deleting all
my old profiles and profile folders. It seems that Tbird changes the profile
format and locations from release to release.  I've been using tbird since
around r0.5. TBird really should do a better job of cleaning up after old
installations.

I apologize if this is so much noise. I thought it might be important for you to
know that more than one person had this problem.

Comment 9

[Joey Minta]

I feel like this bug is getting morphed and I'm not really sure under what
conditions it should close.  The original report, as Tom said, is now fixed.  In
reply to comment #6, that sounds like bug 236689.  In reply to comment #8, that
sounds more like a thunderbird issue than a calendar one.  Voting to resolve
this one at least in favor of something a bit more specific to one issue.

Comment 10

[Joey Minta]

See previous comment.

Comment 11

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!