395228 - "Error / Exception / nsIHandlerService::getTypeFromExtension / NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE", loading <about:>

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 428600

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007090504 Minefield/3.0a8pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007090602 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)
(And I think it was already there in 20070905 SeaMonkey at least)

Start application:
{{
Error: [Exception... "'Component is not available' when calling method: [nsIHandlerService::getTypeFromExtension]"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]
}}

This happens with an existing profile,
but does not happen with a newly created one.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 393627 ***

Agreed: this error got hidden by that bug fix. (I guess.)

***

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041107 Minefield/3.0pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041102 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)

But it shows up again after (new) bug 415498 fix.
(See bug 349985 comment 26.)

(In reply to comment #0)
> but does not happen with a newly created one.

In fact, it does (after understanding how to trigger it):
1. Load <about:>.

Reopening.

Comment 3

[Jeffrey Baker]

Yeah, pretty easy to reproduce, just by loading the about: page.  I also get this whenever I use the back button on certain pages.

Comment 4

[Ian Kester-Haney]

I can reliably reproduce this by downloading a .torrent file.
I get the following error messages

Error: [Exception... "'Component is not available' when calling method: [nsIHandlerService::fillHandlerInfo]"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

Error: [Exception... "'Component is not available' when calling method: [nsIHandlerService::getTypeFromExtension]"  nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

This occurs every time I download a .torrent file.  I first noticed this when the download manager froze while "virus scanning" a torrent.  It did unfreeze by itself.  I cleared the messages and went to the torrent page for Arch Linux and attempted another download.  The error message showed up almost immediately.  To make sure, I downloaded a kubuntu torrent file.  Ditto.  Also, I downloaded a few electronic statements from my bank with no errors reported.

I hope this helps you narrow down the cause of the bug.

Oops, just clicking on some files causes the error message to show up.  I tried .iso and the same thing happpened.  The really odd thing is that each time it popped up and had an application pre-selected to open the file with.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Error: [Exception... "'Component is not available' when calling method:
> [nsIHandlerService::fillHandlerInfo]"  nsresult: "0x80040111
> (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

Your report is bug 428600 !

This bug is about the <about:> page.
(and acts as an implicit meta bug for the related bugs.)

Comment 7

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

This issue should be fixed by bug 428600.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008043001 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)

V.Duplicate