53818 - Mac N6 Installer crashes in engine under ScheduleForInstall()

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P4)

Description

[hangas]

The Mac N6 Installer 2000-09-20-04 failed to install on a drive named "N6 9/20".  
I created a 70MB disk image named "N6 9/20.img" and mounted the image as "N6 9/
20".  I then copied the N6 Installer onto this drive and ran the installer from 
there.  I selected as the location for the install the root of this drive.  The 
install proceeded for quite a while when it finally displayed a dialog that said:  
Please insert the disk "N6".  The only button was cancel and after clicking 
cancel the installer crashed.  stdlog to be attached.

Comment 1

[hangas]

Attachment: StdLog of crash

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

This looks like the second manifestation of memory corruption in the engine.  
This time only earlier.  The attached log doesn't have the stack that we got 
when trying to reproduce this on Paul's machine, but it terminated in an attempt 
to malloc called from PR_Malloc called from ScheduleForInstall.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

*spam*

adding crash keyword...

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Moz 0.9 tasks

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

Bug 71736 is tracking a possibly similar/related crash.

Comment 6

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 71736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Samir Gehani]

Per bug 71736, installed on se's machine 10 times without a single crash. 
Installed each of the following builds twice (once full, once recommended):
1> 2001042604
2> 2001041908
3> 2001041204
4> 2001040504
5> 2001032804

Removing nsbeta1+ keyword since we can't repro this (se mentioned she hasn't
seen this in a while either).  Leaving bug open since we didn't actually fix
anything.  (Suspect an XPInstall engine checkin -- maybe the recent js changes
-- fixed this.)  Please renominate if this is seen again or someone currently
has a consistently reproducible case or a machine is manifesting this problem
frequently.    

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Samir: did you test installing on a drive with a slash in the name, as per the 
original bug description?

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

Simon,
Nope I was testing per se's bug 71736.  Anyways, I put a slash in my Mac OS
8.6/G3 box's hard drive name and did not crash with the following builds:
1> 2001032804
2> 2001040504
3> 2001041204
4> 2001041908
5> 2001042704

se,
Can you please put a slash in your G3 box's hard drive name and test recent
builds (say 5 - 10) to repro this crash? Thanks. 

Comment 10

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

Syd - can we triage this bug? 

Comment 11

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This bug seems to have evaporated, no reported sightings in over a month

Comment 12

[Grace Bush]

verify, cannot reproduce the problem