612411 - [MacOSX] mochitest-plain-5: check why tinderboxes report "Alerts service is not available" for test_alerts.html and test_alerts_noobserve.html

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=Firefox/1289853803.1289854152.16738.gz&fulltext=1
Rev3 MacOSX Leopard 10.5.8 mozilla-central opt test mochitests-5/5 on 2010/11/15 12:43:23
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=Firefox/1289853936.1289854276.17394.gz&fulltext=1
Rev3 MacOSX Snow Leopard 10.6.2 mozilla-central opt test mochitests-5/5 on 2010/11/15 12:45:36
{
230 INFO TEST-START | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts.html
231 INFO TEST-PASS | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts.html | Alerts service exists in this application
232 INFO TEST-KNOWN-FAIL | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts.html | Alerts service is not available. (Mac OS X without Growl?) - [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: http://mochi.test:8888/tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts.html :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 50"  data: no]
233 INFO TEST-END | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts.html | finished in 2500ms
234 INFO TEST-START | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts_noobserve.html
235 INFO TEST-PASS | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts_noobserve.html | Alerts service exists in this application
236 INFO TEST-KNOWN-FAIL | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts_noobserve.html | Alerts service is not available. (Mac OS X without Growl?) - [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: http://mochi.test:8888/tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts_noobserve.html :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 37"  data: no]
237 INFO TEST-END | /tests/toolkit/components/alerts/test/test_alerts_noobserve.html | finished in 119ms
}

See bug 611540 comment 3 and bug 611540 comment 7.

To summarize:
*Is it expected that the failure happen in that way?
*Shouldn't a fallback to some custom implementation be triggered?

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=Firefox3.6/1289878223.1289881245.7117.gz&fulltext=1
OS X 10.5.2 mozilla-1.9.2 test mochitests on 2010/11/15 19:30:23
Same.