Bug 65982 – g.xulUT errors in Firefox 1.0_pre-R1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description John Shaw 2004-09-30 20:34:37 UTC]

Ever since I moved to firefox 1.0_pre I've been getting these g.xulUT errors in chrome://global/content/commonDialog.xul.  I've looked through other bugs that I thought would fix this to no result so far.  I gathered the problem was with using the old chrome.rdf or compreg.dat which was suppose to be fixed with mozilla-launcher-1.21.  Just to check I went ahead and move them out myself again and I still am having these errors.

Sites that cause a particular problem are the phpmyadmin site and the cups web interface, both which I am using off the newest ~86 gentoo packages.  

Since the errors still persist, I think I must be having another problem here from what was previously reproted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to many different websites with firefox.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
With many sites I just get one error, which once closed doesn't cause a problem 
anymore.  With the cups interface specifically I get a persistant error 
requiring me to kill firefox. 

Expected Results:  
Worked.... 

Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8 
i 
686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.8 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) 
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -ffast-math 
-pip 
e" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2 
/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown / 
usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/s 
hare/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/t 
ex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -ffast-math 
-p 
ipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ 
http://gentoo.oregonstate.ed 
u http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crd crypt cups 
dga 
 dvd encode esd foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg 
li 
bg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis 
opengl 
 oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse 
s 
sl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-15 13:56:31 UTC]

Fixed in mozilla-launcher-1.20:

  27 Sep 2004; Aron Griffis <[e-mail]>
  +mozilla-launcher-1.20.ebuild:
  Update to 1.20, marked ~arch, to remove compreg.dat on first run of a new
  version #63999

Later versions of mozilla-launcher also remove other problematic files.

[Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-16 13:16:01 UTC]

Sorry, my previous comment ignored that you had already tried deleting compreg.dat and chrome.rdf.  I suspect the problem was another cache file in your profile.  Recent versions of mozilla-launcher remove additional known-problematic files when firefox is updated, but if that doesn't work, there's little I can do.

Best I can suggest is cleaning your profile completely, which will almost undoubtedly solve the problem:

quit firefox
mv .mozilla/firefox .mozilla/firefox-$(date +%Y%m%d)
firefox