369927 - Thunderbird fails to start when Hardware DEP is enabled in the "AlwaysOn" mode in WinXP SP2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233765

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Doug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.9 (20061207)

Confirmed this by restarting my computer with "no-execute page-protection" enabled in Windows. Thunderbird fails to start, the executable starts in taskmanager then dies.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Ensure Hardware DEP is enabled (AMD tested)
2.Change boot.ini to reflect "AlwaysON"..example /noexecute=AlwaysOn
3.Reboot and Try to start Thunderbird
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird failed to start

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should of started.

I have not tested if Thunderbird fails under Intel's implementation of Data execution protection (Execute Disable bit). Looked through the bug database and couldn't find anybody reporting this. Seems surprising nobody noticed this before.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Doug,
bug 233765 comment 64.
do you see that problem also?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

afaict reporter is gone