295735 - crash with assertion failed in gstrfuncs.c: line 186 when using arrows inside text boxes in web forms

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Deian Tabakov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4

Firefox crashes when I use the left arrow to navigate inside a text box,
including the ones on this very web page (crashed while I was submitting the bug
report, VERY annoying!) 

The error on stderr is 

GLib-CRITICAL **: file gstrfuncs.c: line 186: assertion `string1 != NULL' failed

Didn't have this problem with the previous version (1.0.3)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fill some information in a textbox
2. Press left arrow several times
3. Curse (assuming that you just lost a long email)

Actual Results:  
Crashed browser with assertion failed

Expected Results:  
Not crash

GLib-CRITICAL, file gstrfuncs.c: line 186

Comment 1

[timeless]

i don't suppose you could build gtk and firefox w/ symbols?

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

See 260388 ¨GLib-CRITICAL **: file gstrfuncs.c: line 1348 (g_strsplit): 
assertion `string != NULL' failed.

Probably Mozilla is not finding the pango configuration file, even after
trying a fallback location. 

You might find a work around by setting an environment variable for that
location

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a pango-enabled build?

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Deian, can you reproduce the bug in Firefox 2 ?

Comment 5

[Deian Tabakov]

No, after I moved on to 1.5 and later on to 2.0 the behavior disappeared. As far as I am concerned it has been fixed, although I am curious what went wrong in 1.0.4.

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Ok, thanks.

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