285613 - Extensions manager's -register function doesn't like malformed install.rdf files

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050306 Firefox/1.0.1 (Debian package 1.0.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050306 Firefox/1.0.1 (Debian package 1.0.1-2)

See bug #285605 some XPI files are provided with malformed install.rdf files.
When that happens when using the -register procedure given in bug #247846, the
extensions manager crashes, thus making the -register procedure fail.

This is due to the call to getInstallManifest in ensurePreConfiguredItem, which,
when failing, calls showMalformedError, which tries to show a window. Since X
display is not initialized when using -register, it fails and crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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