342411 - crash when opening https site with embedded browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309877

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect)

Description

[Olaf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

With an embedded browser I cannot open any https site. By default I run into an assertion at pk11slot.c line 1844, function PK11_GetInternalSlot(): 

SECMODModule * mod = SECMOD_GetInternalModule();
PORT_Assert(mod != NULL);

Assuming the embedder needs to initialize NSS, I call NSS_Init() with the correct parameters in the main thread after NS_InitEmbedding(). This produces another error when visiting an HTTPS site. An assertion at nsnsscomponent.cpp line 293:

  NS_ASSERTION( (0 == mInstanceCount), "nsNSSComponent is a singleton, but instantiated multiple times!");

This is caused because the AuthCertificateCallback or the HandleHandshakeCallback requests the component service with do_GetService(kNSSComponentCID) but for some reason a second instance of the service is created (thread problem?)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build an embedded browser. for instance MFCEmbed
2. use LoadURI to navigate to https://www.mozilla.org/


Actual Results:  
Debug version asserts, release crashes.

Expected Results:  
Show the correct HTML page

my .mozconfig: (xpcom-obsolete added just to be able to compile MFCEmbed)

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=C:/proj/mozilla/firebird-build
topsrcdir=C:/proj/mozilla
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
ac_add_options --enable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-shared
ac_add_options --disable-static 
ac_add_options --enable-crypto 
ac_add_options --enable-single-profile
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-calendar
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --disable-ldap
ac_add_options --disable-plugins
ac_add_options --disable-view-source
ac_add_options --disable-composer
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-activex
ac_add_options --disable-activex-scripting
ac_add_options --enable-xpcom-obsolete

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Please search for duplicates; this is an old issue where NSS doesn't work without a profile directory.

Comment 2

[Olaf]

The solution to bug 309877 is from september 2005, maybe it should be integrated into the trunk? This blocks embedded browser development.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 309877 ***