615015 - "ASSERTION: bad action nesting!"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase (requires focus)

Might be related to bug 336091 and bug 496337.

###!!! ASSERTION: transaction did not execute properly: '(NS_SUCCEEDED(result))', file editor/libeditor/base/nsEditor.cpp, line 674

###!!! ASSERTION: bad action nesting!: 'mActionNesting>0', file editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLEditRules.cpp, line 397

###!!! ASSERTION: bad state: 'mUpdateCount > 0', file editor/libeditor/base/nsEditor.cpp, line 4184

###!!! ASSERTION: Someone forgot to call EndUpdateViewBatch!: '!mRootVM', file nsIViewManager.h, line 297

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: stack traces

Comment 2

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It also makes the entire browser window stop drawing (and makes it black in my case).

Comment 3

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

If UpdateView batches get unbalanced that would mess up the drawing.

Comment 4

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This is partly solved by my patch in bug 615450.  With that patch, this is the assertion that I get:

###!!! ASSERTION: transaction did not execute properly: '(NS_SUCCEEDED(result))', file /Users/ehsanakhgari/moz/mozilla-central/editor/libeditor/base/nsEditor.cpp, line 674

Comment 5

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Attachment: Patch (v1)

Comment 6

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http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/af358fe76628

Also pushed a followup to fix an assertion count check:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a84d8af1af12