653914 - seamonkey crashes whenever I click on mail in gmail.This occurs in safe mode also.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert N]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

As above. Crashes always and only when trying to open an email in gmail. Firefox does not crash with same operation.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start up seamonkey
2.Home page is gmail
3.Click on any email entry

Actual Results:  
Total crash. Must restart each time.

Expected Results:  
Crash. Must restart. 

Not crashed but opened email.

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Did the Crash Reporter pop up, and did you tell it to send a report to Mozilla?

If the answers to both questions are yes, please browse to about:crashes then find (by its date) the line corresponding to this particular crash and paste the crash ID (a string of letters, digits and dashes, probably starting with bp-) into a comment in this bug.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Oh, and BTW, which version of SeaMonkey were you using at the time of the crash? The answer is similar, but slightly different, to the "Build Identifier" in comment #0, and can be found at the bottom of the page which comes up in response to the "Help → About SeaMonkey" menu item (after resetting the User-Agent to its default if you use the UserAgent Switcher extension).

Comment 3

[Robert N]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Did the Crash Reporter pop up, and did you tell it to send a report to Mozilla?
> 
> If the answers to both questions are yes, please browse to about:crashes then
> find (by its date) the line corresponding to this particular crash and paste
> the crash ID (a string of letters, digits and dashes, probably starting with
> bp-) into a comment in this bug.

No Crash Reported popped up and about:crashes yields no valid url found.
I am using version seamonkey 2.0.13. I just upgraded Ubuntu to newest 2.6.38-8 kernel.

Comment 4

[Stefan Persson]

Probably this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seamonkey/+bug/723830

If you use the latest stable Ubuntu release (Natty Narwhal/11.04), Seamonkey crashes whenever attempting to access the spellchecker. This appears to be a bug in Ubuntu and not in Seamonkey. See the Ubuntu bug page for more information.

Comment 5

[Robert N]

Okay, disabling spellchecker fixed this problem. I can now open emails without Seamonkey crashing. No problem in Firefox but I prefer Seamonkey .

Comment 6

[Philip Chee]

Invalid => Downstream problem. Probably Ubuntu are shipping a newer version of the Hunspell libraries which SeaMonkey 2.0.x isn't designed to work with.

Comment 8

[Anders Kaseorg]

This isn’t a downstream problem.  I think this is fixed by http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-2.0/rev/c5b3d7beca8c#l17.29 .  The problem was that struct hentry ended with a single char that was used as a variable-length array, and writing multiple chars into the space allocated for a single char triggered fortify checks (even though there was enough space after the end of the struct).  Now it ends with a char[1], which fortify recognizes as represending a flexible array.

Comment 9

[Anders Kaseorg]

For reference, here’s the original hunspell patch:
  http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2812045
and another possibly relevant patch from a comment on LP #723830:
  http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=3304798

Comment 10

[Philip Chee]

OK then, an *upstream* problem (Hunspell)