334844 - Crash on any access to Privacy Preferences (apparently in JavaScript)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 334464

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[jnoyes-sf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060131 SeaMonkey/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060414 Firefox/1.5.0.2

Contributed build of Firefox 1.5.0.2 for Solaris, from:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.2/contrib/solaris_tar_ball/firefox-1.5.0.2.en-US.solaris2.8-sparc-gtk1.tar.bz2

Installed fine, starts fine initially.

Choose Edit -> Preferences, click on "Privacy" icon, Firefox crashes with a Bus Error.  Also, if you manually add any item to prefs.js that affects Privacy settings, Firefox will crash with the same Bus Error immediately upon startup.

This happens for me on both my Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems.

Backtrace to be added as an attachment, first couple of lines are in "Additional" section.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start Firefox
2.  Choose Edit -> Preferences
3.  Click "Privacy" icon

Actual Results:  
Crash with Bus Error.


(gdb) bt
#0  0xff059810 in __1cMnsCSubstringJStripChar6Mci_v_ () from ./libxpcom_core.so
#1  0x00cea0bc in __1cNnsFormHistoryNInitByteOrder6Mi_I_ ()
#2  0x00ce85b8 in __1cNnsFormHistoryMOpenDatabase6M_I_ ()

Comment 1

[jnoyes-sf]

Attachment: Full backtrace - backtrace is consistent

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Looks like a dupe of bug 334464

Comment 3

[jnoyes-sf]

I agree the description of 334464 includes a similar problem (privacy tab crash), but I don't have the original crash problem from 334464 here when entering text in the search box, and the backtraces looks very different.  But I'm not a coder, so who knows.

Comment 4

[Tuomo Tikkanen]

I can confirm this is happening in privacy preferences dialog, but also in many other places.

I first noted the problem when I was checking flight time tables on http://www.blue1.com/travelservice/timetables/ (click the "timetables" link in the middle of the page) and when I selected "Leaving from" city. The FF crashes every time there if "Leaving from" or "Going to" is selected. The backtrace of the core dump is similar to reported backtrace on stack levels #0-#2.

For me the 1.5.0.2 on Solaris crashes also when I do login to to bugzilla.mozilla.org. Once again the backtrace is similar on stack levels #0-#2.

I also get strange "Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?" message from gdb when I do the bt command on gdb. I'll attach all the three bt cases I have "debugged".

I think the severity level of this bug should be changed to "critical" because this bug really makes 1.5.0.2 totally unusable on Solaris (for example I had to revert back to 1.5.0.1)

Comment 5

[Tuomo Tikkanen]

Attachment: Backtrace case Privacy Preferences

Comment 6

[Tuomo Tikkanen]

Attachment: Backtrace case Blue1

Comment 7

[Tuomo Tikkanen]

Attachment: Backtrace case Login to bugzilla.mozilla.org

Comment 8

[Mark Mentovai]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 334464 ***