302881 - gxine plugin causes mozilla to crash when launching either realvideo or windows media player

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Keith Hanlan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717

When launching the above mentioned website, mozilla crashes. The problem may be
due to the plugin but should mozilla itself really crash when a plugin fails
gracelessly? To be honest, I don't know where the separation of responsibility
lays. In any event, here's the traceback:

#0  0x00ab0402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00ab0402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x009ce272 in raise () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x00ba826a in NSGetModule () from
/usr/local/mozilla-1.7.10/components/libprofile.so
#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x00863343 in _XrmInternalStringToQuark () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#5  0x008637ca in XrmPermStringToQuark () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#6  0x0640783a in _XtCompileResourceList () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#7  0x064056ce in XtPeekEvent () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#8  0x063f36a3 in XtCvtStringToCommandArgArray () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#9  0x063f3697 in XtCvtStringToCommandArgArray () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#10 0x063f3697 in XtCvtStringToCommandArgArray () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#11 0x063f3697 in XtCvtStringToCommandArgArray () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#12 0x063f3697 in XtCvtStringToCommandArgArray () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#13 0x063f3697 in XtCvtStringToCommandArgArray () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#14 0x063f3697 in XtCvtStringToCommandArgArray () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#15 0x063f37cf in XtInitializeWidgetClass () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#16 0x063f48ff in _XtCreateWidget () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#17 0x06420c73 in XtInstallAllAccelerators () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#18 0x06420db5 in XtVaCreateManagedWidget () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
#19 0x071f543c in NPP_SetWindow () from /home/keithh/.mozilla/plugins/gxineplugin.so
#20 0x071f5c4b in Private_SetWindow () from
/home/keithh/.mozilla/plugins/gxineplugin.so
#21 0x047e2af7 in ?? () from /usr/local/mozilla-1.7.10/components/libgkplugin.so
#22 0x0a350d0c in ?? ()
#23 0x0a30623c in ?? ()
#24 0x000000d0 in ?? ()
#25 0x0a238788 in ?? ()
#26 0x00000000 in ?? ()


If you want the core file, I can provide it but it is almost 100MB.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on "BBC NEWS:VIDEO AND AUDIO Watch the spacewalk filmed with a
suit-mounted camera " link at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4733495.stm#
2. Select either Windows Media Player or RealPlayer.

Actual Results:  
3. Poof!

Expected Results:  
Failed more gracefully without taking down mozilla.

I'm running FC4 but am using the
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.10-gtk2+xft.tar.gz that is available from your
website.

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.3.4 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-Wno-long-long -pedantic -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.3.4 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy
-Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pedantic -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe
-I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--disable-tests --enable-extensions=default,irc,tasks,negotiateauth
--without-system-nspr --without-system-jpeg --without-system-zlib
--without-system-png --without-system-mng --disable-debug '--enable-optimize=-O2
-gstabs+' --enable-crypto --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft
--disable-freetype2 --disable-xprint

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

AFAICT this crash data isn't really helpful. Could you install talkback and get
a talkback ID for the crash? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Resolving INCOMPLETE for lack of an answer by the reporter to comment #1 after 2½ years.