329161 - seamonkey crashes when sorting messages by subject [@ strxfrm - nsCollationUnix::AllocateRawSortKey]

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0

see summary, reproduces always under debian sarge.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open mail&news
2.go to inbox (or view-sort)
3.sort by subject

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
good sorting by subject

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

any talkback incident id? 

Comment 2

[timeless]

Reporter: if you're using a debian build, then you should complain to debian, or rebuild w/ --enable-debug --disable-optimize --disable-strip.

if you're using a mozilla.org, please be sure to select talkback from the installer.

Comment 3

[Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Reporter: if you're using a debian build, then you should complain to debian,
> or rebuild w/ --enable-debug --disable-optimize --disable-strip.

This is seamonkey linux build from mozilla.org (which is gtk2 english).

> if you're using a mozilla.org, please be sure to select talkback from the
> installer.

There is no talkback available in installer options. I've installed everything, except javascript debugger. Seamonkey shows 'Segmentation fault' immediately after sorting messages by subject. No talkback window appears.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

SeaMonkey branch builds don't have talkback.  You'll need to try a trunk build:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 5

[Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky]

Attachment: this is a logfile showing this error

this log was created by seamonkey compiled from source tarball of official 1.0 release with --enable-debug --disable-optimize --disable-strip on debian sarge 3.1r1

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

looks like an i18n function is crashing.  In particular, my guess is some collation key generator's AllocateRawSortKey function. 

Is it just your inbox that has this problem, or do other folders? If it's just your inbox, it could be one particular message that's causing the problem, and you could figure out which message through a binary search (i.e., copy half the inbox to another folder; try to sort that folder; if it crashes, copy half of that folder to another folder, etc...)

Comment 7

[timeless]

note the last line of your log file:
Type 'gdb /usr/local/lib/seamonkey-1.0/seamonkey-bin 1155' to attach your debugger to this thread.

the next time you produce this, please follow the advice given by the output in your terminal window.
from gdb, type |where| and then provide that stack trace. thanks :)

Comment 8

[Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky]

Attachment: seamonkey-gdb-log-20060309-1

this is gdb logfile

Comment 9

[Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky]

Attachment: seamonkey-log-20060309-1

this is seamonkey crashlog connected with supplied gdb log

Comment 10

[timeless]

cool, in gdb, try going to frame 7 and doing info locals, list, p varname and such. see if you can figure out what is being past to the function at frame 6.

Comment 11

[timeless]

erm, i suppose i meant passed not past. sorry :(

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/debugging-faq.html may be of help

Comment 12

[Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky]

I've downloaded latest trunk seamonkey 1.5a and generated talkback incident. ID: TB16129721K

Comment 13

[timeless]

the good news is that it matches the gdb output.
the bad news is that using gdb is going to get you a lot further than talkback will at this point :(.

Comment 14

[Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky]

After numerous experiments the problem was solved with replacing belocs-locales with locales package from Debian distribution.

Comment 15

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Yevgeny: Would this bug be a WORKSFORME resolution, since you took care of it with replace the locales package?  If not, can you reproduce it with Firefox 3.5?

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

invalid per comment 14