99216 - Exception error when submitting a search in the knowledge base.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Steve Lewis]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    20010812

At this page: http://support.novell.com, I enter the text "support pack 3" in 
the "Search Knowledge base" field.  Then I press <Enter> to submit the query.  
I get an exception error that crashes the browser.  Catching this in the 
debugger shows that there is code in PIPNSS that is dereferencing a NULL 
pointer.

I'm running a debug build of the 0.9.3 that I built, so I can provide more 
detailed information/help if necessary.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load http://support.novell.com
2. Enter "support pack 3" in the "Search Knowledge Base" field.
3. Press <enter>

Actual Results:  Crash (exception error).

Expected Results:  Submit the query and returned the results from the Novell 
site.

Crashed in pipnss.dll.

The recent call stack looks like:
PIPNSS! 608df1d3()
PIPNSS! 608df132()
nsGenericFactory::CreateInstance(....)
nsComponentManagerImpl::CreateInstance(...)
nsComponentManager::CreateInstance(...
nsServiceManagerImpl::GetService(...)
nsServiceManager::GetService(....)
nsGetServiceByCID::operator()(....)
nsCOMPtr_base::assign_from_helper(...)
nsFormFrame::OnSubmit(...)
nsHTMLFormElement::DoSubmitOrReset(....)
...

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Works for me, win98, trunk build 2001091003. Reporter, can you reproduce the
crash with a recent nightly build?

Comment 2

[Oliver Klee]

WFM too using 2001091003 Win2k. I'm getting lots of JavaScript errors on that
page, though.

Comment 3

[Vladimir Ermakov]

works for me on 2001-09-06-05 branch...
I will resolve works for me. 
Steve, please reopen if this occurs on your machine with a more recent build.

Comment 4

[Steve Lewis]

OK, so I've installed the 0.9.4 build and the problem is not there anymore.  I'm
positive that this was due to a problem I must have had in my own build of the
0.9.3 source.  I noticed the problem for the first time after I switched from a
downloaded build to my own local build of the source.  Then, not long after I
reported the bug, I saw that I was getting the problem on 'every' page that had
a form submit.
Sorry for the runaround on this one, I just had a bad build.

Comment 5

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying by to reporter's coments