Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-25 Thread Alex Woods
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:00:37PM -0500, Dustin Navea wrote: Was it the Mozilla installer that was crashing due to a bug in it's ntmisc.c or the Mozilla app itself that was crashing? It was the Gecko Runtime Environment (GRE) part of the installer. -- Alex

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-24 Thread Uwe Bonnes
Juan == Juan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juan Alex wrote: I'm encountering a crash when trying to install Mozilla 1.7.7 under wine. I am using a fresh CVS checkout, but I've tried older revisions with the same result. Juan So far, this evidence points to a bug in

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-24 Thread Juan Lang
--- Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Mozilla Installer Installshield or MSI based? Otherwise is it open source? Perhaps an easier way to backtrace the problem? I believe it's open source. The crash was due to Mozilla attempting to write to a value that's exported by msvcrt.dll. It

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-24 Thread Dustin Navea
I was going to file the bug with mozilla, but I wasnt sure of how to describe it.. sorry..now I know, but dont know how to describe where it is.. would bug in ntmisc.c: _tzname be appropriate? Dustin Juan Lang wrote: --- Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Mozilla Installer

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-24 Thread Dustin Navea
Was it the Mozilla installer that was crashing due to a bug in it's ntmisc.c or the Mozilla app itself that was crashing? Dustin Juan Lang wrote: --- Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Mozilla Installer Installshield or MSI based? Otherwise is it open source? Perhaps an easier way to

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Alex Woods
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 05:18:58PM -0700, Juan Lang wrote: --- James Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because Mozilla is passing a bad memory address doesn't mean it's a bug in Mozilla. For example Mozilla could have requested some information from wine and we gave them the bad memory

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Juan Lang
--- Alex Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, here is a +relay,+nls log of what's happening just before the invalid memory address gets passed back. Sweet, this turns up what we're looking for. (That doesn't mean I have a patch though.) Hey James, we're back to it being a Wine bug, though Moz

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Juan Lang
I've sent a patch to wine-patches that works for me. Would you care to try it? Mozilla is almost certainly wrong, though: the maximum size for the TZ environment variable is 15 chars (16 with the NULL): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__tzset.asp The corresponding names

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Dustin Navea
If that is the case, shouldnt we report it as a bug in Mozilla, and is it possible that Firefox is doing the same thing, but just that nobody has tested it out on wine? Dustin Juan Lang wrote: I've sent a patch to wine-patches that works for me. Would you care to try it? Mozilla is almost

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Juan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mozilla is almost certainly wrong, though: the maximum size for the TZ environment variable is 15 chars (16 with the NULL): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__tzset.asp The corresponding names in _tzname are probably only 3 chars in

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Juan Lang
--- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, judging from the pointer values I get on my XP box the buffers seem to be 64 chars long. Okay, changing patch to match. Still, I'm not sure why Mozilla feels the need to overwrite them, that doesn't seem right. No, it doesn't,

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Dustin Navea
Perhaps they are thinking along the lines of the whole string being for example GMT -06:00 Central Time ? In which case they wouldnt want to convert just the GMT as it would product the wrong result. Just an outsider's opinion ;-) Dustin Juan Lang wrote: --- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Juan Lang
--- Dustin Navea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps they are thinking along the lines of the whole string being for example GMT -06:00 Central Time ? In which case they wouldnt want to convert just the GMT as it would product the wrong result. Apples and oranges. By converting, I mean

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Dustin Navea
Ill go ahead and file a bug and take a look at the code, but I'm probably not the person to try writing a patch for something like that.. I'm more of a scripting guy than anything else, just hang out here to learn, help out other users, and test patches u guys write.. Dustin Juan Lang wrote:

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-22 Thread Juan Lang
Alex wrote: I'm encountering a crash when trying to install Mozilla 1.7.7 under wine. I am using a fresh CVS checkout, but I've tried older revisions with the same result. So far, this evidence points to a bug in Mozilla rather than in Wine. It may very well be triggered by a bug in Wine..

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-22 Thread Juan Lang
--- James Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because Mozilla is passing a bad memory address doesn't mean it's a bug in Mozilla. For example Mozilla could have requested some information from wine and we gave them the bad memory address. While that's certainly possible in general, that

Installing Mozilla

2005-04-22 Thread Alex Woods
Hello, I'm encountering a crash when trying to install Mozilla 1.7.7 under wine. I am using a fresh CVS checkout, but I've tried older revisions with the same result. Here is a backtrace. It's falling over trying to write to 0x99806858. Backtrace: =1 0x557581df

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-22 Thread Alex Woods
If I change my winver from winxp to win95, I don't get this problem. -- Alex

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-22 Thread Alex Woods
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:31:52PM -0700, Juan Lang wrote: Alex wrote: I'm encountering a crash when trying to install Mozilla 1.7.7 under wine. I am using a fresh CVS checkout, but I've tried older revisions with the same result. So far, this evidence points to a bug in Mozilla rather

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-22 Thread James Hawkins
On 4/22/05, Alex Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:31:52PM -0700, Juan Lang wrote: Alex wrote: I'm encountering a crash when trying to install Mozilla 1.7.7 under wine. I am using a fresh CVS checkout, but I've tried older revisions with the same result. So