577417 - fennec 20100705 win32 is trying to use xre from firefox3.6.4

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot of error dialogs

crash on launch in fennec 20100705 win32 nightly

STR:
1 - install zip-build mobile trunk nightly for win32 from 2010-07-05
2 - unzip it
3 - run fennec.exe
4 - crash on launch

The error dailog says:

  fennec.exe - Bad Image 

  D:\app\fennec\xul.dll is either not designed to run on 
  Windows or it contains an error, etc.

See screenshot for full error message.

Comment 1

[timeless]

I either need a .dwi from http://www-archive.mozilla.org/quality/help/dependency-walker.html
or a log from https://developer.mozilla.org/En/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_with_WinDbg

I think i'd prefer to .dwi

Comment 2

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Attachment: on first loading fennec into dependency walker

Comment 3

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Attachment: on first error dialog

Comment 4

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Attachment: at end of run

Comment 5

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Here's the dwi file:

http://home.comcast.net/~username54321/fennec.dwi

The attachment was too bug for bugzilla so I posted it elsewhere, but it can't live there permanently so please grab a copy before I take it down in a couple days.

timeless, is that what you need?

Comment 6

[timeless]

it should be, don't worry about cc'ing me. i had just downloaded it. but it takes me a bit, i have to load a windows vm

Comment 7

[timeless]

if you look at dependency walker, and select view>full paths, you'll see that:

d:\app\fennec\FENNEC.EXE
is trying to use
d:\app\fx3.6.4\XUL.DLL

this is probably based on some registry setting or some other interesting misconfiguration.

You could:
uninstall firefox3.6.4 (it's out of date anyway)

Try using procmon from sysinternals.com to figure out which registry key is being checked (and probably delete it). Google would probably also work.

Try to find the relevant code and figure out what's going wrong.

Comment 8

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> don't worry about cc'ing me

sorry about that, after i added you i realized you must have kept yourself off the cc list on purpose

(In reply to comment #7)
> Try using procmon from sysinternals.com to figure out which registry key is
> being checked (and probably delete it).

if it's valuable to the fennec team i could try to track this down but it would take someone giving explicit instructions on IRC walking me through it.  i have the sysinternals suite but i'm no expert with it.  i can take direction.

for myself, this isn't blocking me on anything.  it would be easier just to run fennec in a linux vm.

for the record:
- d:\app\fx3.6.4 contains 3.6.6 after the in-place update
- my system default browser is that same one (3.6.6 in d:\app\fx3.6.4)
- my system registry is about a year old with many many installs and uninstalls of firefox alphas and betas (including fx2.0 and maybe even 1.5, because it sometimes helps understand how things work now by seeing how you got there)

thanks for the suggestions.

Comment 9

[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.