36801 - mozilla crashes on startup if LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains "@sys" (an AFS-ism)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[dave]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15pre19 i686)
BuildID:    2000030708

mozilla crashes on startup if LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains "@sys" (an AFS-ism).  AFS
allows the use of "@sys" in pathnames.  It translates this to the value of
sysname on the fly.  If a pathname like this appears in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, mozilla
dumps core on startup.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /afs/rhic/@sys/lib
2. ./mozilla
3.

Actual Results:  core dump

Expected Results:  browser should have started up

this is a fairly recent change - maybe two or three weeks old

Comment 1

[leger]

Adding crash keyword.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

[e-mail], are you still seeing this on with current builds?

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

[e-mail] have you had the chance to test this with current builds?

Comment 4

[Joseph Elwell]

Hi,

I hereby officially (and gladly) retract my bug report #36801!  Further
investigation showed the cause of the crash on startup to be ... um ...
pilot error.  Mozilla does _not_ crash on startup just because an 
"@sys"
appears in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Sorry for the distraction.

Cheers,
Dave

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Cool!  Verified.