282939 - Camino crashes when clicking on Back Key

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[ronald.gold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Camino/0.8.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Camino/0.8.2

Have had frequent crashes when clicking on Back Key in Toolbar. Frequency of
crash decreased somewhat when I restored original user.js preference file which
I had modified by adding "user_pref("network.enableIDN", false);" to prevent
spoofing. The crashes started after I modified the user.pref file and have
continued, at lower rate, since restoring original.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on back button several times
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Camino crashes.

Expected Results:  
Loaded previous web page.

G4 1 GHz iMac, 512 RAM, OS X 10.3.8.

How do I submit crash log?

Comment 1

[ronald.gold]

Attachment: Camino Crash Log

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

is anything reproducable?

Comment 3

[ronald.gold]

(In reply to comment #2)
> is anything reproducable?

The frequency of crashes has decreased markedly since deleting
("network.enableIDN", false) from user.js. However, it has occurred twice in the
past two days, an improvement over the 4-6 crashes per day before restoring user.js.

I am not sure the bug is unique to Camino: it may be something in Panther since
I have gotten similar crashes with version 10.3.5 through 10.3.7 with a variety
of Apple and Third Party applications. The crash logs are similar to the Camino
crash log in that the logs all start with:

Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000021

I take it that this indicates a problem in finding an address. All of the
crashes have involved an action to do with a window: going back or forward to
previous of next page in Camino or iCab; dragging and dropping from one window
to another; closing a window. Apple Development was at a loss to explain the
problem.

The one thing that reduced frequency of crashes was to run Disk Warrior. I found
that when Disk Warrior reported that the Directory File had more than 10% of
items out of order, the crashes would become more frequent. Optimizing the
Directory File reduced crashes. However, this was not the case with the Camino
crashes, as Disk Warrior did not reduc Camino crashes.

Comment 4

[Geoff "temporarily off bugmail" Beier]

I tested this without APE installed and there was no problem. If this is
reproducible, re-open.