51076 - crash when subscribing to news server with categories

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P1)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

karen found this when trying to reproduce bug #37673

here's the stack trace:

nsNNTPHost::getFolderFor(nsINNTPNewsgroup * 0x01d76ca0) line 2632 + 25 bytes
nsNNTPHost::SetIsCategoryContainer(const char * 0x067ec320, int 1, 
nsMsgGroupRecord * 0x067e9dc0) line 1761 + 9 bytes
nsNNTPHost::AddNewNewsgroup(nsNNTPHost * const 0x06720080, const char * 
0x067ec320, int 22, int 3, const char * 0x0012d996, int 1) line 2527
nsNNTPProtocol::ListXActiveResponse(nsIInputStream * 0x067251a0, unsigned int 
591) line 4360
nsNNTPProtocol::ProcessProtocolState(nsIURI * 0x06713084, nsIInputStream * 
0x067251a0, unsigned int 907, unsigned int 591) line 4890 + 19 bytes
nsMsgProtocol::OnDataAvailable(nsMsgProtocol * const 0x06716e78, nsIChannel * 
0x06716664, nsISupports * 0x06713080, nsIInputStream * 0x067251a0, unsigned int 
907, unsigned int 591) line 192 + 32 bytes
nsOnDataAvailableEvent::HandleEvent(nsOnDataAvailableEvent * const 0x067eaf60) 
line 400 + 47 bytes
nsStreamListenerEvent::HandlePLEvent(PLEvent * 0x067ed970) line 97 + 12 bytes
PL_HandleEvent(PLEvent * 0x067ed970) line 589 + 10 bytes
PL_ProcessPendingEvents(PLEventQueue * 0x05756bf0) line 526 + 9 bytes
_md_EventReceiverProc(HWND__ * 0x023e03e2, unsigned int 49424, unsigned int 0, 
long 91581424) line 1059 + 9 bytes
USER32! 77e71820()
05756bf0()

working on the fix right now.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting.  marking p1, since it is a reproducable crasher against our Netscape 
news server.

Comment 2

[Karen Huang]

Adding crash and nsbeta3 since problem is reproducable and occurring on today's 
build. QA->me

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fix checked in.  r=mscott

the problem is we were executing some category code that is not ready for prime
time.  since we don't support categories in 6.0, I just #ifdefed it out.

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

Just for the stupid people:
What are "newsgroup categories"? Part of the specs or some internal 
mozilla/netscape thingy?

Comment 5

[lchiang]

categories were a feature supported in Communicator 4.x and the Collabra News
Server.  You could have a newsgroup and then define/break it further by creating
categories which display in a "pretty name" (ie. instead of netscape.test, it
may show "Netscape's Test Forum")

Comment 6

[Karen Huang]

No crash anymore when subscribing to news server with categories.
Verify on Linux 09-06-08-M18 commercial build
WinNT 09-06-08-M18 commercial build
Mac 09-06-04-M18 commercial build
Marking as verified!!