73643 - crash launching mail

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Summary: 
Launching MailNews for linux build 032708 causes the app to crash.  I am able to
start it successfully with an old profile but it crashes when I select any IMAP
folder.  On a new profile with a new IMAP account set up it crashes within a
couple of seconds of launching MailNews with no further intervention.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install linux build 032708 (tested tar.gz, installer and sea.tar)
2.  Create a new profile
3.  Select Tasks|Mail
4.  Using  the new account wizard set up a new IMAP account
5.  Click OK at conclusion of wizard

Results
Hitting OK at the end of the wizard causes crash.  Further attempts to lauch
mail crash.  

Additional Information:
This does not appear to be a problem on windows or Mac mozilla builds.  This
affects old and new profiles. Mail will start up on an old profile but crashes
if you try to select one of the account folders.

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

->Account Manager

Racham, Seth and David: this is a smoketest blocker.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is not an account manager problem.  This is specific to IMAP and does not
affect POP or NNTP.  Possibly result of recent Off-Line work?

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

any talk back crash reports? I have a debug build from around midnight last
night and it seems to be working okay for me. 

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

could you respin the mailnews directory? Just gmake clean in the mailnews
directory, then gmake again, and see if it works? dependency builds on linux are
apparently broken.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

here's a talkback report #28340858:

nsCOMPtr_base::~nsCOMPtr_base() 
nsImapMailFolder::UpdateFolder() 
XPTC_InvokeByIndex() 
nsXPCWrappedNativeClass::CallWrappedMethod() 
WrappedNative_CallMethod() 
js_Invoke() 
js_Interpret() 
js_Invoke() 
js_InternalInvoke() 
JS_CallFunctionValue() 
nsJSContext::CallEventHandler() 
nsJSEventListener::HandleEvent() 
nsEventListenerManager::HandleEventSubType() 
nsEventListenerManager::HandleEvent() 
nsXULElement::HandleDOMEvent() 
nsXULTreeElement::FireOnSelectHandler() 
nsXULTreeElement::SetSuppressOnSelect() 
nsXULTreeElement::SelectItem() 
XULTreeElementSelectItem() 
js_Invoke() 
js_Interpret() 
js_Execute() 
JS_EvaluateUCScriptForPrincipals() 
nsJSContext::EvaluateString() 
GlobalWindowImpl::RunTimeout() 
nsGlobalWindow_RunTimeout() 
nsTimerGtk::FireTimeout() 
process_timers() 
TimerCallbackFunc() 
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0x1104d (0x4063d04d) 
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0x10186 (0x4063c186) 
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0x10751 (0x4063c751) 
libglib-1.2.so.0 + 0x108f1 (0x4063c8f1) 
libgtk-1.2.so.0 + 0x8c5b9 (0x405645b9) 
nsAppShell::Run() 
nsAppShellService::Run() 
main1() 
main() 
libc.so.6 + 0x189cb (0x402469cb) 

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

doh I see more checkins after 6am by bienvenu down in imap again. Your probably
right david. it's the same linux dependnecy problems that caused us to get a
blocker last Thursday. 

I think the release process may need revist how the 8am linux depend builds are
getting generated. We keep getting bit by this 'cause david b. likes to wake up
real early. 

Leaf can you please do a clean rebuild of the mailnews directory for linux? Thanks!

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

I don't know why dependencies are so broken on Linux, or at least the release
builds, but they seem completely horked for imap. Is it some problem with the
makefiles? Whenever I change an idl file, the imap build gets horked. Do the
dependencies across directories not work?

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

If this is just a build issue I'll pull the smoketest keyword and get it off of
the tree closure radar.  

Comment 9

[cls]

Sounds like a problem with makedepend/mkdepend dep builds.  I'm seeing a similar
issue on Irix/HP-UX on dep builds whenever interfaces change (bug 66529).   

A separate issue is why do the nightly builds use --disable-md ?

Comment 10

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

so, bienvenu fixed the mail crashing bug, we should open a new one for the 
makedepend issue, and this should be resolved.

Comment 11

[esther]

using build 2001-04-03 on winme, mac and linux this is not happening.  This 
scenario as originally stated is fixed
Note: do not confuse this with a new bug using 4-4 builds where crashing happens 
after 3-pane window is used displaying msgs in thread (74770).  Also, a bug 
introduced on 3-29 through 4-3 on linux a new profile didn't start up, but when 
you kill the process then select the newly created profile and setup the IMAP 
account, all works OK. This is how this bug was tested.  Verified.