384179 - crash on startup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

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crash on startup

I'm running the latest trunk (after software update), and I crash on startup.

I think my Firefox 3.0a6pre: 2007061206 - Windows NT, but I can't tell for sure as I crash on startup.

More details coming

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Seth, can you try removing xpcom_core.dll from your appdir?

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

also confirmed on Vista , see Bug 384172 comment #2

Comment 3

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robert and I tried this:

install yesterday's trunk, 20070611, and then software update to 20070612, then
we crash.

We think it is this dll is the cause:  components/xpinstal.dll

Note, there are other files that might be left behind:

./components/jar50.dll
./components/jsd3250.dll
./components/xpinstal.dll
./xpcom_core.dll

also, the talkback extension was around:

./extensions/[e-mail]/components/master.ini
./extensions/[e-mail]/components/qfaservices.dll

but I think I remember bsmedberg saying if both breakpad and talkback were
around, that's ok.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I can trace the Windows Vista crash back to talkback, oddly enough: when I remove talkback the build starts normally.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Remove some files, rev. 1

Comment 6

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Note, I'm on Windows XP.

From our tests:

Once you get the crash on startup issue, if you remove ./xpcom_core.dll and also xpti.dat and compreg.dat (from your profile) then you can start up (without removing xpinstal.dll).

And, if you put back the removed xpti.dat and compreg.dat (from your profile), even without xpcom_core.dll, you'll crash.

We've double checked this.

Comment 7

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from comment #3:

> We think it is this dll is the cause:  components/xpinstal.dll

Please ignore that wild goose.

Thanks for the quick fix, bsmedberg!

Should we take down the existing mar?

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I think we should just check this in and re-clobber.

Comment 9

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Checked in a clobbered.

Comment 10

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

btw: I'm also seeing xpistub.dll in the appdir.

Comment 11

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Comment on attachment 268119 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove some files, rev. 1


http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2d3a1c216d9f