346331 - Subscribing to feed with external application doesn't work (bug in FeedConverter.js ?)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Jindrich Pozlovsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060728 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060728 BonEcho/2.0b1

If I open some RSS feed in Firefox (for example http://sunnysoft.cz/obchod/rss.php) and want to subscribe it with external application, nothing happens. Instead of it I get some errors in FeedConverter.js

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://sunnysoft.cz/obchod/rss.php
2. Click to "Subscribe now" (if you have already set external RSS reader application)

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens, but in error console I have this: 

Error: [Exception... "ServiceManager::GetService returned failure code:"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///opt/firefox/components/FeedConverter.js :: FRS_addToClientReader :: line 297"  data: no]
Source File: file:///opt/firefox/components/FeedConverter.js
Line: 297

Error: [Exception... "ServiceManager::GetService returned failure code:"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///opt/firefox/components/FeedConverter.js :: FRS_addToClientReader :: line 297"  data: no]
Source File: file:///opt/firefox/components/FeedConverter.js
Line: 297

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "ServiceManager::GetService returned failure code:"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///opt/firefox/components/FeedConverter.js :: FRS_addToClientReader :: line 297"  data: no]

Expected Results:  
External application should be executed.

It's only Linux related (I have tested it on Windows and it works well there)

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Yes, it's failing when getting the shell service because GNOME integration isn't functional on builds from Tinderbox. :(

See bug 268314 for more information. I guess we can add this to bryner's list of things that this affects in comment 0.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Fixed by bug 268314.

Comment 3

[Jindrich Pozlovsky]

unfortunately, it seem like bug is still present in 20060811 BonEcho/2.0b1
(using KDE as desktop environment)

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Jindrich, I think this may be due to us not having a shell service for KDE. Please file a new bug with appropriate information, including any errors in the JS Console, and do CC me.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

Argh, I just realized you were the reporter of this bug, Jindrich. Apologies. 

Then yes, this is failing because we can't get the shell service on KDE because we don't have one. I'm pretty sure there are bugs filed on this, and other KDE/qt integration bugs. If you can't find one, please do file one.