Installing Mozilla

[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 rather than in Wine.  It
> may very well be triggered by a bug in Wine..
> 
> > Here is a backtrace.  It's falling over trying to write to
> > 0x99806858.
> 
> Mozilla's passing an apparently invalid pointer to WideCharToMultiByte. 
> Question is, where does this come from?
> 
> Running with WINEDEBUG=nls may give a clue what string it's trying to
> convert, which may give some indication of the problem.  Running with
> WINEDEBUG=relay will probably give a better clue, but be prepared for a
> huge log.  But since the Mozilla source is available, you may be able to
> hunt it down more easily using that.

Well, I included a bit of the relay trace I did in my first email, and
it includes the first occurance of that strange memory address (or
anything near it for that matter).  Since it's being passed into wine
from Mozilla, I guess you're right and it is a problem within Mozilla.

-- 
Alex