36781 - Seg fault on exit running the Linux installer

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P2)

Description

[David Epstein]

Linux only. build 2000-04-21-13-M16.
1. Download stub installer for Linux. gzip and tar extract.
2. Run the installer.
3. Continue pressing Next and then OK.
4. Continues through downloading and installing phases.
5. Watch console window.
Result: Get these "cannot unlink" and "cannot remove directory" msgs (for .tmp 
directories). Then, a segmentation core dump. No TalkBack available.

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

Have to redo unlinking.  This is mine.

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

This doesn't have to do with unlinking.  It is from within the Linux installer 
code when exiting.  Investigating.

Comment 3

[leger]

Adding crash keyword.

Comment 4

[Cathleen]

exiting linux installer will cause crash
need to fix in beta2

Comment 5

[David Epstein]

Still crashes. I did a diff between unzip/extraction of M16 (in folder called
may08-unzip) and installer package folder (containing all files installed before
the core crash). Here is the diff:

/u/depstein/builds/M16/may08-unzip >diff package/ ../may08-inst2/
Only in package/: TestGtkEmbed
Only in package/: bloaturls.txt
Common subdirectories: package/chrome and ../may08-inst2/chrome
Only in ../may08-inst2/: component-1.reg
Binary files package/component.reg and ../may08-inst2/component.reg differ
Common subdirectories: package/components and ../may08-inst2/components
Common subdirectories: package/defaults and ../may08-inst2/defaults
Common subdirectories: package/icons and ../may08-inst2/icons
Only in package/: libcmt.so
Only in package/: libgtkembedmoz.so
Only in package/: libgtkxtbin.so
Only in package/: libjpeg.so
Only in package/: libprotocol.so
Only in package/: libzlib.so
Only in package/: mozilla-config
Only in package/: mozilla-installer-bin
Common subdirectories: package/plugins and ../may08-inst2/plugins
Only in ../may08-inst2/: registry
Common subdirectories: package/res and ../may08-inst2/res
Common subdirectories: package/searchplugins and ../may08-inst2/searchplugins
Only in package/: timebombgen
Only in package/: xpidl
Only in package/: xpt_dump
Only in package/: xpt_link
/u/depstein/builds/M16/may08-unzip >ls
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar  package/
re is the diff:

Comment 6

[Samir Gehani]

After a discussion with David, we decided to open a separate bug regarding his 
last comment which has to do with packages-unix manifest differences rather than 
install failure.  He plans on following up with a bug number for reference.

Comment 7

[David Epstein]

submitted bug 38603. pasted diff file listing (below) into that bug. 38603 
addresses a crash after entering a URL in the Linux installer build.

Comment 8

[Syd Logan]

This isn't directly related to the bug, but there was an error that went by
stating that components.reg was not found (I was running the install perl script
in a tree within which I had not uet started mozilla). I don't think we should
be packaging components.reg (if that is what is being attempted).

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

Syd,
We won't be paackaging the components.reg eventually.  Thanks for pointing this 
out.  Folks have vacillated over this issue much.

Comment 10

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix.

Comment 11

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

just a quick 'me too'...

crashed for me twice with may 11 build. even during download part of the
install, it's sucking 100% CPU which is a good tip off something is already
wrong at that point.

first crash wasen't really... it just hung installing a file named
'Shareware.<something>', second was while on Mail & News.

Comment 12

[Samir Gehani]

Retargeting to M17.  This is a bug, not a feature.

Comment 13

[Samir Gehani]

After consultation with dp, bug 40074 filed against XPCOM.  We have a workaround 
for this release: don't unload xpistub (which leaves xpcom around in turn).  

Comment 14

[Samir Gehani]

Fix checked in.

Comment 15

[Grace Bush]

message on console today:

nNCL: registering deferred (0)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

build 2000052308

Comment 16

[Samir Gehani]

This is not the same bug.  Here is it is failing to autoreg.  Please open a 
a separate bug for this problem.  My bug is an installer app seg fault on exit 
problem.  Resolving again.

Grace, the new bug should be nominated for nsbeta2 please.  Thanks.

Comment 17

[Grace Bush]

opened bug 40310

Comment 18

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 40310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Samir Gehani]

Misinterpreted depstein's and gbush's comments.  Sorry.  Reopening.

Comment 20

[Samir Gehani]

This was another problem (I introduced while fixing the xpcom related crash on 
exit).  Fix checked in.

Comment 21

[Grace Bush]

this is happening- same message as above- on build 2000052508

Comment 22

[Samir Gehani]

Here's the deal: if you run as an X client on the same machine that the X server 
is (i.e. without exceed or rlogin and setting a remote display) then the 
installer works fine.  Else, it dies.  So, that's a different bug.  But, since 
the empirical result is the same we'll track it here.

Comment 23

[Grace Bush]

results 5/26 build
1. using exceed to rlogin to remote machine (usual test)
   installer gives the following message on console (does not core dump)
    nNCL: registering deferred (0)
    Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x14437)!
it hangs - ctrl-c out
installed files appear to be there but when I try to launch- this error appears:
error in loading shared libraries: libraptogfx.so: cannot open a shared object 
file etc....

2. logging in directly to a machine
intaller  core dumps as before

Comment 24

[Samir Gehani]

Logging in directly I didn't core dump.  Will investigate Grace's env further.

Comment 25

[Samir Gehani]

Oops, examining gbush's build revealed that the fix for the seg fault while 
displaying locally is in my tree but not in.  Will check that in.  Will continue 
investigating the cause of the remote display seg fault.  Sorry for the 
confusion.  

Comment 26

[Samir Gehani]

Should no longer crash when displaying on same machine as X server is running.  
Remote displaying still seg faults on exit (i.e., partial fix checked in).  
Continuing investigation.

Comment 27

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 43788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 28

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 44399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 29

[Syd Logan]

This happened to me repeatedly on a non-remote display as well. See bug 44399.
Changing summary to reflect this.

Comment 30

[Chris McAfee]

downloaded installer on linux, crashed.  7/7 bits off of sweetlou.

Comment 31

[Laurent Duperval]

I still get the installer bug:

./mozilla-installer
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
nNCL: registering deferred (0)
Segmentation fault

I'm using Mandrake 7.0 w/Gnome 1.2 (HelixGnome) and the Sawfish window manager.
I've had this problem for awhile now.

Comment 32

[Laurent Duperval]

Ooops: mozilla build 2000071020

Comment 33

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 41784 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 34

[Alek Jeziorek]

still seen on Linux commercial build 2000-07-13-08-M17.

Comment 35

[Alek Jeziorek]

adding me to CC

Comment 36

[Blake Ross]

Samir, I see you checked in something for this.  Is it completely fixed now?

Comment 37

[Samir Gehani]

Fixed "local display" bug.  "Remote display" bug is probably thread related.  

Comment 38

[Alek Jeziorek]

still on linux commercial build 2000-07-18-08-M17 and instead of going into the 
installation and taking a little time before the core dumps it had the 
segmentation right after i clicked on the install button.

Comment 39

[Laurent Duperval]

I got this morning's build (I guess 2000-07-18 M17) and I didn't get the
segfault. But after going thru the install process, I get:

> sudo ./mozilla-installer
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
nNCL: registering deferred (0)


> ./mozilla
./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=.
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
     LIBRARY_PATH=.
       SHLIB_PATH=.
          LIBPATH=.
       ADDON_PATH=.
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
Could not obtain CmdLine processing service

Whenever I got the segfault, I would get the same CmdLine error reported here.
So it's not crashing but it's not installing completely either.

Oh, the 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2000-07-17-20-M17/linux-xpi

I ran it again and got:

Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
Passive mode on.
nNCL: registering deferred (0)

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage):
assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage):
assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage):
assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage):
assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage):
assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed.

I tried again and had the same error. Weird.

Comment 40

[Samir Gehani]

This bug is to track the seg fault issue.  I'd like to keep it at that so 
pointy-heads parsing for info can get to the crux quickly.  In the future, I'd 
appreicate it if new bugs are created for issues that are other than the 
installer actually seg faulting.  Thanks.

Comment 41

[Syd Logan]

I'm getting this crash too.

Comment 42

[Syd Logan]

Changed title - has nothing to do with being remote.

Here is a stack:


Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x40400521 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x40400521 in ?? ()
#1  0x8054c82 in nsXIEngine::Install ()
#2  0x805342d in nsInstallDlg::WorkDammitWork ()
#3  0x40230ce9 in pthread_start_thread (arg=0xbf7ffe7c) at manager.c:204

Samir: do you have any clues on this, or need help?

Comment 43

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

7/19 is past and Samir won't be back until Friday.

Comment 44

[Jon Granrose]

45716 is the fact that the linux installer doesn't work.  No working linux
installer and Netscape is shipping a tarball full of misc cruft for PR2.

FYI - for anyone working with the installer, if the installer fails it will
leave files around with "-1" in them, i.e. components/libnecko-1.so.  I've found
that often times deleting the component.reg file and lib*-1.so can sometimes
make the installer build work.

Comment 45

[Samir Gehani]

Let's try this once again: the linux installer crashes when remote displaying.  
I have isolated this bug (but due to the threaded nature am still working on 
it).  I *know* this bug exists.  If you are seeing a crash local displaying 
(another manifestation of which I fixed a couple of days ago) then *please* log 
*another* bug.  Let's leave this bug for the remote display problem.  Thank you.

Comment 46

[Alek Jeziorek]

*** Bug 46110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 47

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 46082 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 48

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Since bug 45716 is NSCP-only permission'd, and Samir wants this bug for tracking
remote display issues, is there any public bug open on the fact that linux
installer hasent worked for about 4 month, on a local display? Segfault every
time, on every build.

Comment 49

[Samir Gehani]

Fixed.  

No, really, it's fixed this time: remote and local display.  No longer crashes 
on exit.  What's that?  Don't believe me?  Try it out for yourself with the next 
veriication builds in the morning.  Really.  :o)

Comment 50

[Alek Jeziorek]

I still get a segmentation fault with linux commercial build 2000-07-24-08-M17 
but later in the installation tha before; reopening

Comment 51

[Samir Gehani]

Please verify this with the mozilla installer.  The commercial installer is 
hosed due to bug 46263 and is separate from this bug.

Comment 52

[Grace Bush]

works for me on 2000072408 build

Comment 53

[David Epstein]

no seg fault on the Mozilla build 2000-07-24-08-M17. Verifying this bug.

Comment 54

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 47151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***