733684 - Aurora crashes inside dbghook.c after XPCOMGlueStartup(exePath) fails

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Andrei Bârsan]

Attachment: The stack trace

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.66 Safari/535.11

Steps to reproduce:

I build the latest version of Aurora on my Win7 x64 pc. I used the MSVC10 compiler and compiled for x86 like a good boyscout. I just used the make -f config.mk command and if finished successfully. However, running the resulting executable doesn't work.


Actual results:

Aurora allocates very little memory, no window appears and then it crashes. Debugging in VS reveals that this happens in dbghook.c on line 65, inside msvcr100r.dll.


Expected results:

Aurora should have started up and worked with no problems (Aurora code should work on all platforms decently, according to the Wiki)

Comment 1

[Andrei Bârsan]

It seems to be crashing in nsBrowserApp.cpp here:
rv = XPCOMGlueStartup(exePath);
  if (NS_FAILED(rv)) {
    Output("Couldn't load XPCOM.\n");
    return 255;
  }

And then, after it crashes, the error message function Output seems to crash itself, a few levels deeper.

Comment 2

[Andrei Bârsan]

MORE INFO:
I have no .mozconfig file, I just built Aurora with the default settings.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

does this problem still exist using current builds?

Comment 4

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

Unfortunately it looks like we never followed up on this bug, but it is quite old so I don't think it is useful to keep it open.