I've been doing development with a windows build (built with VS2005)
that I start like this:
firefox -profile p -chrome chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul
After some time, a timer fires and the application update service pings
the aus server, which is loaded using https. This causes a bunch of
security stuff to initialize, which asserts and crashes. Here's some of
the stack:
msvcr80d.dll!__loctotime64_t(int yr=1617, int mo=11, int dy=3, int hr=1,
int mn=26, int sc=9, int dstflag=-1) Line 67 + 0x57 bytes C
msvcr80d.dll!__time64_t_from_ft(_FILETIME * pft=0x0012c52c) Line 253 +
0x25 bytes C
msvcr80d.dll!_findnext64i32(int hFile=1478872, _finddata64i32_t *
pfd=0x0012c684) Line 187 + 0xc bytes C
freebl3.dll!EnumSystemFiles(int (const char *)* func=0x042c2f20) Line
277 + 0x14 bytes C
freebl3.dll!ReadSystemFiles() Line 320 + 0xa bytes C
freebl3.dll!RNG_SystemInfoForRNG() Line 462 C
softokn3.dll!RNG_SystemInfoForRNG() Line 1633 C
softokn3.dll!nsc_CommonInitialize(void * pReserved=0x0012cc28, int
isFIPS=0) Line 2988 C
softokn3.dll!NSC_Initialize(void * pReserved=0x0012cc28) Line 3052 +
0xb bytes C
nss3.dll!secmod_ModuleInit(SECMODModuleStr * mod=0x03a70778, int *
alreadyLoaded=0x0012ccc8) Line 150 + 0xf bytes C
nss3.dll!SECMOD_LoadPKCS11Module(SECMODModuleStr * mod=0x03a70778) Line
322 + 0xd bytes C
...
It actually crashes in a system dll. It thinks the creation time of one
of the files in my system directory is year 1617, which it does not
like. I understand that this crashing is a bug and I should probably
file it, but Darin and I looked at the code that was calling into this -
Enum/ReadSystemFiles... and it looked like it was doing this to seed the
random number generator. Is this the best way to collect entropy? Might
it not be that two systems have pretty similar system directories?
(Especially as limited user accounts become more prevalent)?
-Ben
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