304800 - Mozilla 1.7.11 crashes after installing some extensions to profile if XUL.mfl isn't deleted. [@ nsXULPrototypeScript::Serialize]

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204271

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Manuel Reimer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728

I've been reported several times that Mozilla 1.7.11 crashes after PrefBar has
been installed to profile. The same seems to happen with Tabbrowser Extensions.
The crash happens if you try to restart the browser after you've successfully
installed the extension. If the crash happens then the only way to successfully
start mozilla is to delete XUL.mfasl (or XUL.mfl in Windows). After deleting
this file anything works well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- Install Mozilla 1.7.11
- Install PrefBar (http://prefbar.mozdev.org/) to profile directory.
- Restart the browser after installation

Actual Results:  
The browser should crash after two messages from PrefBar. If you delete XUL.mfl
the browser will start well.

Expected Results:  
No crash. It's xpicleanup's job to kill the XUL.mfl file, but it doesn't seem to
do that.

This *may* depend on Bug 304797, but this bug can't be the only reason for this
crash as I've also got reported the problem from people that had write access to
their Mozilla program directory. As xpicleanup.dat has an entry that seems to
tell xpicleanup to kill XUL.mfl, but this doesn't seem to happen, it should be
any bug in xpicleanup.

Comment 1

[Manuel Reimer]

I forgot to publish the talkback ID:

http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=TB8395834Y

Comment 2

[timeless]

Incident ID: 8395834
Stack Signature
 nsXULPrototypeScript::Serialize 0d4b10b4
Product ID
Mozilla17
Build ID
2005072806
Trigger Time
2005-08-15 10:30:23.0
Platform
Win32
Operating System
Windows NT 5.0 build 2195
Module
gklayout.dll + (0016c661)
URL visited
User Comments
starting Mozilla after installing Prefbar 3.2
Since Last Crash
1708 sec
Total Uptime
1708 sec
Trigger Reason
Access violation
Source File, Line No.
d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/content/xul/content/src/nsXULElement.cpp,
line 4472
Stack Trace
nsXULPrototypeScript::Serialize  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/content/xul/content/src/nsXULElement.cpp,
line 4472]
nsXULPrototypeScript::SerializeOutOfLine  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/content/xul/content/src/nsXULElement.cpp,
line 4563]
nsXULDocument::OnStreamComplete  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/content/xul/document/src/nsXULDocument.cpp,
line 3263]
nsStreamLoader::OnStopRequest  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/netwerk/base/src/nsStreamLoader.cpp,
line 144]
nsJARChannel::OnStopRequest  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/netwerk/protocol/jar/src/nsJARChannel.cpp,
line 688]
nsCOMPtr_base::assign_with_AddRef  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/glue/nsCOMPtr.cpp,
line 86]
nsInputStreamPump::OnStateStop  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/netwerk/base/src/nsInputStreamPump.cpp,
line 499]
nsInputStreamPump::OnInputStreamReady  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/netwerk/base/src/nsInputStreamPump.cpp,
line 340]
nsInputStreamReadyEvent::EventHandler  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsStreamUtils.cpp,
line 119]
PL_HandleEvent  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/threads/plevent.c,
line 680]
PL_ProcessPendingEvents  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/threads/plevent.c,
line 618]
_md_EventReceiverProc  [d:/BUILDS/tinderbox/Mozilla1.7/WINNT_5.0_Clobber/mozilla/xpcom/threads/plevent.c,
line 1430]
0x0012fe18

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204271 ***