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 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 ba

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 Installsh

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. I

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

Re: Installing Mozilla

2005-04-23 Thread Alex Woods
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:02:09AM -0700, Juan Lang wrote: > 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.

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

2005-04-23 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
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 PROTEC

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, a

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 ch

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 certa

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 i

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

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 ba

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 r

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

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

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 wine_cp_wcstombs(table=0x558485

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

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..