460105 - Growl causes crash on XR startup on OSX

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

If you attempt to run a application.ini-based app without turning it into a bundle first on OSX, you get this crash:

2008-10-15 12:36:33.025 xulrunner-bin[73999:817] Mozilla has caught an Obj-C exception [NSInvalidArgumentException: *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value (key: ApplicationId)]

That key is apparently GROWL_APP_ID, which is used in:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/alerts/src/mac/﷒0﷓ 

#if 0'ing that block causes the app to start up correctly without being turned into a .app; however, it has the input focus problems because it's being started from a .framework and not a .app.  This is much better than not starting at all/crashing, though.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

If we have a way to detect running not-in-a-bundle, we should just refuse to start and print an error message... it's the #1 confusion of XR app developers on mac.

Comment 2

[David Humphrey (:humph)]

If hit this same thing this week, but it happened due to a corrupt Info.plist.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XULRunner has been removed from the Mozilla tree: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/_rFMunG2Bgw for context.

I am closing all the bugs currently in the XULRunner bugzilla component, in preparation for moving this component to the graveyard. If this bug is still valid in a XULRunner-less world, it will need to be moved to a different bugzilla component to be reopened.