410732 - Breakpad does not run at crash when low memory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 382124

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[Masahiro YAMADA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010304 Minefield/3.0b3pre
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At OS Low memory, breakpad cannot run on crash

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Show Bug 345161
2.Open attachment 229928 [details]
3.Minefield will crash (May be after "Low memory" warning is displayed).

Actual Results:  
Breakpad fails to run.

Expected Results:  
breakpad should run and success to report crash.

Fx2 + talkback can report this crash.

I think it is needed to allocate enough memory to run breakpad at startup-time, not crash-time.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

AFAIK, Breakpad doesn't allocate memory at crash time, in fact we do an awful lot to avoid it.  I notice you're on Windows 2000, you're not seeing bug 382124, are you?  I don't have access to that bug, so I haven't tested on WinXP yet.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I ran that testcase, and the crash reporter appeared just fine on my system (Windows XP SP2).  I'm going to dupe this over.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

I don't have access to bug 345161 either.

Yet, I'm not sure about duplication:
bug 382124 is about missing minidumps,
the current bug seems about Crash Reporter not activating at all.

Reporter, could you give more details (here):
what files are or are not generated, ... ?