Re: Installing Mozilla

[Juan Lang]

--- Uwe Bonnes  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 was declared in
msvcrt's spec file, but never defined.  Thus Mozilla was writing to a
garbage pointer.  It's been fixed in Wine.

There's a separate issue that Mozilla probably isn't doing the right
thing.  It's overwriting a buffer it doesn't own and whose size is not
documented, and it should be writing only four characters but is writing
more.  Now that Wine is fixed this is unlikely to cause anyone any
trouble, but it's still not right.

--Juan

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Installing Mozilla

[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  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 was declared in
> msvcrt's spec file, but never defined.  Thus Mozilla was writing to a
> garbage pointer.  It's been fixed in Wine.
>
> There's a separate issue that Mozilla probably isn't doing the right
> thing.  It's overwriting a buffer it doesn't own and whose size is not
> documented, and it should be writing only four characters but is writing
> more.  Now that Wine is fixed this is unlikely to cause anyone any
> trouble, but it's still not right.
>
> --Juan
>
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Installing Mozilla

[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  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 was declared in
> msvcrt's spec file, but never defined.  Thus Mozilla was writing to a
> garbage pointer.  It's been fixed in Wine.
>
> There's a separate issue that Mozilla probably isn't doing the right
> thing.  It's overwriting a buffer it doesn't own and whose size is not
> documented, and it should be writing only four characters but is writing
> more.  Now that Wine is fixed this is unlikely to cause anyone any
> trouble, but it's still not right.

Installing Mozilla

[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.