284681 - When clicking bookmark to enter the URL, mozilla crashes after a few seconds

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83376

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Rasmussen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Is the build identifier almost useless? I think so, too, but the string above is
what shows when clicking Help->About Mozilla.

Incidentally, the version I'm using just now is the latest nightly build with
the Build ID: 2005030305.

When Mozilla crashes, the only info I get is the following copy'n paste from the
xterm where I start it:

udgaard:~$ mozilla

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 4

System error?:: Success
-------------------------------

I also once saw that instead of "Success" it said "Permission denied", but I
haven't been able to reproduce that again. The libxfce.so complaint has been
there as long as I can remember.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter the above mentioned URL
2.Wait a few seconds.
3.Crash

Actual Results:  
-

Expected Results:  
Showed the page in the URL.

I don't know where Mozilla crashed.

My system is a heavily updated Slackware 7.0, eg. "gcc (GCC) 3.2.3" and
"/lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.1.so".

udgaard:~$ ldd /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin 
        libxpcom.so => not found
        libxpcom_core.so => not found
        libmozjs.so => not found
        libplds4.so => not found
        libplc4.so => not found
        libnspr4.so => not found
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f89000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f86000)
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0xb7e61000)
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0xb7e2f000)
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0xb7e2c000)
        libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0xb7e06000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb7dfd000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7def000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7d27000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7d04000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7bd1000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fec000)

Comment 1

[Peter Rasmussen]

Attachment: Output from running mozilla with strace

The attachment is the file err.mozilla, from running mozilla the following way
until it crashes:

strace mozilla &> err.mozilla

Comment 2

[Peter Rasmussen]

If it matters, I'm running Linux kernel 2.6.11.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

From the release notes:

"Sun's JRE will crash at startup if your useragent does not begin with
Mozilla/5. It might print Expected a version > 5! Version = 4  The workaround is
to not forge a useragent whose version is less than 5 if you have the Sun JRE
plugin in your plugin directory. This preference would appear in pref.js as
something like: user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98;)"); 

(Bug 83376)"

Does it crash if you fix your browser-ID string?

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

open("/home/plr/.mozilla/init.d/"
looks creepy. There are more references to init.d as well. Looks messed up to me.

Comment 5

[timeless]

rkaa: init.d is normal, reporter: straces are almost never useful and should not
be provided unless requested. fix your prefs.js file.

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050303

I´m getting lots of CSS errors and JS warnings, and this JS error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Node cannot be inserted at the
specified point in the hierarchy"  code: "3" nsresult: "0x80530003
(NS_ERROR_DOM_HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR)"  location:
"http://www.cse.dk/static/scripts/KF/pagebuilder.js Line: 175"]

The page didn´t look well, when I tried to Reload I got a 404

Comment 7

[Peter Rasmussen]

(In reply to comment #5)
> rkaa: init.d is normal, reporter: straces are almost never useful and should not
> be provided unless requested. fix your prefs.js file.

I don't in general agree with your comment about strace, though I don't in
particular know how useful it was for this issue.

Removing an old and for long unused entry of user agent override in prefs.js
fixed the crash, and now it says "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US;
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050303". Meaning that Mozilla hasn't before crashed on me when
visiting this site, so I am still wondering why it does now, and if you want to
blame it solely on Suns JRE? 

I have "Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2-b28" installed.

In any case do I find that Mozilla sometimes upgrades poorly, when it can't
handle old values used in former releases. And I'm not talking upgrading from
eg. 1.0 to 1.8, but from 1.8 nightly builds almost daily, when it suddenly
doesn't work anymore with a specific site.

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

See also bug 156493

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83376 ***

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

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