358636 - Seamonkey fails to start if xpicleanup.dat is present

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 351246

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Steve Wendt]

Spin-off from bug 354862

If an xpicleanup.dat file is present, Seamonkey won't start:
Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061028 SeaMonkey/1.1b

1) touch xpicleanup.dat
2) seamonkey.exe  <- hangs at splash screen

With 354862 fixed, running xpicleanup.exe manually is a workaround.

Comment 1

[Peter Weilbacher]

This error seems to happen because the call
   rc = DosQueryAppType(path, &ulAppType);
in NSPR's os2misc.c (function _PR_CreateOS2Process) fails. After this call the variables are rc=87, ulAppType=0. I have no idea why that could be, I added system calls to check what psfiles and pstat say just before and after the call but xpicleanup is not involved. And I can call a test app that does nothing else but DosQueryAppType() and printf the output all the time while executing seamonkey.

Hmm, it seems to be a speciality of the high-mem build, although I can build the test app fine with -Zhigh-mem and it runs without problems...

Comment 2

[Peter Weilbacher]

OK, I got confirmation from James Moe that this is the same problem as for enigmail. That also calls gpg.exe through _PR_CreateOS2Process() and also fails because of the weird result of DosQueryAppType().

This confirmation makes me more certain that this is a high-mem only fault and so I mark it as dupe of the high-mem bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 351246 ***

Comment 3

[Steve Wendt]

There's a focus problem, but that's a different issue...