Kompozer crashes when adding a new form

[Ezra Morris]

Binary package hint: kompozer

Did the following:
1.) Opened Kompozer.
2.) Clicked on the "Form" button.
3.) Entered "submit.php" for "Action URL" and "POST" for "Method".
4.) Kompozer crashes with "segmentation fault".

Ubuntu 8.04
ezra@ezra-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy kompozer
kompozer:
  Installed: 1:0.7.10-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1:0.7.10-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.7.10-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[wvengen (wvengen)]

Thank you for your bug report. I've tried to reproduce it, but I can't reproduce in a custom build with debugging enabled. Is this still a problem for you? And if you run kompozer from the console, does it give any error message when crashing?

[Ezra Morris (ezramorris)]

Hi,
Yes, I still get this bug. The command line just reports "Segmentation Fault".

[Ezra Morris (ezramorris)]

ezra@ezra-laptop:~$ kompozer -g
/usr/lib/kompozer/run-mozilla.sh -g /usr/lib/kompozer/kompozer-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/kompozer
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kompozer:/usr/lib/kompozer/plugins:/usr/lib/mre/mre-0.7.10
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kompozer:/usr/lib/mre/mre-0.7.10
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kompozer:/usr/lib/kompozer/components:/usr/lib/mre/mre-0.7.10
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib/kompozer:/usr/lib/mre/mre-0.7.10
          LIBPATH=/usr/lib/kompozer:/usr/lib/mre/mre-0.7.10
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/lib/kompozer
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/lib/kompozer/kompozer-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
/usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/kompozer/kompozer-bin -x /tmp/mozargs12406
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/kompozer/kompozer-bin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb73486c0 (LWP 12422)]
[New Thread 0xb6c85b90 (LWP 12425)]
[New Thread 0xb5a40b90 (LWP 12426)]
[New Thread 0xb523fb90 (LWP 12427)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb73486c0 (LWP 12422)]
0xb7f44f98 in nsSubstring::SetLength () from /usr/lib/kompozer/libxpcom.so
Current language: auto; currently asm
(gdb) next
Single stepping until exit from function _ZN11nsSubstring9SetLengthEj,
which has no line number information.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7f44f98 in nsSubstring::SetLength () from /usr/lib/kompozer/libxpcom.so
(gdb) next
Single stepping until exit from function _ZN11nsSubstring9SetLengthEj,
which has no line number information.

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) quit

[wvengen (wvengen)]

Hmm I only have amd64 boxes which don't show this bug; it may be 32bit-only. Can anyone else confirm this?

@Ezra: there are lots of small bugs like this in Kompozer. Upstream is very quiet, but the maintainer appears to be working on a more stable codebase http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2036429&forum_id=581742

[Tony Yarusso (tonyyarusso)]

Unable to confirm on a fresh 8.10 installation in i386.

[Toby (mail-mailmeonline)]

FIX: You just have not to use Synaptic to get KompoZer. Instead get the latest release from the kompozer-website
http://kompozer.net/zip/
and download, unpack and start it. No install or compilation needed.
Check here:
http://nyuviu.wordpress.com/2008/12/...der-usb-stick/ (in German only but with pics)

or follow Bruce:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...41/comments/40

No crashing anymore . You may even use it from usb-stick.

Regards Toby

[Ezra Morris (ezramorris)]

I can confirm this is fixed upstream in release 20081205, as Toby suggested.

[PabloRQ (pablo-romeroquinteros)]

It has the same behavior that bug 263441. Marked as duplicate.