377555 - Segmentation fault when starting as normal user. It only works as root.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[laxyf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Sunbird 0.3.1 (sunbird-0.3.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2) on Ubuntu Edgy (kernel 2.6.17)

Sunbird refuses to start and crashes with "segmentation fault" message.

When running as "root" user, it opens normally.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rm -R ~/.mozilla/sunbird/
2. cd /opt
3. sudo wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/releases/0.3.1/linux-i686/en-US/sunbird-0.3.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
4. sudo tar xf sunbird-0.3.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
5. cd /opt/sunbird/
6. ./sunbird
Actual Results:  
The display starts to draw the frame of the window, then it crashes.

The output log is:
(QFA)Talkback error: Can't initialize.
*** cal_calendar_schema_version not found; initializing storage provider tables
cal_calendar_schema_version
cal_events
cal_todos
cal_attendees
cal_recurrence
cal_properties
Starting calendar alarm service
observer added
Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  
It should display Sunbird main window


To clean up after test and prepare for next attempt:
7. sudo rm -R /opt/sunbird/
8. sudo rm sunbird-0.3.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

Comment 1

[laxyf]

I tried last nightly builds and they work OK.

3. sudo wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/nightly/latest-trunk/sunbird-0.6a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
4. sudo tar xf sunbird-0.6a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

It starts normally:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a4pre) Gecko/20070415 Calendar/0.6a1

The same for the mozilla-1.8 build

3. sudo wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/sunbird-0.5pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
4. sudo tar xf sunbird-0.5pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070414 Calendar/0.5pre


Since this bug is no longer existing on these versions, I assume we can mark this bug as fixed for upcoming releases.

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Marking WFM per previous comment. (Bugs are only marked fixed if they can be linked to a certain source code check in)