Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 453177
regxpcom silently fails to register per-user components
Last modified: 2009-01-09 02:50:32 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14 XPCOMViewer/1.0a1 Description of problem: Running $ /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14/regxpcom produces no error output but fails to register or even examine per-user components installed in ~/.mozilla/components. After # debuginfo-install firefox I ran $ kdbg /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.14/regxpcom and noticed that it exited with code 0377 (-1?). I also noticed that startup_xpcom() (indirectly) calls nsComponentManager::AutoRegister anyway, sort of defeating the purpose of regxpcom. but at least regxpcom notices that mNativeComponentLoader->AutoRegisterComponents() fails - see attached stack trace. I found this bug while looking for a way for user (non-root) programs to register utility components temporarily for use by other child processes like ActiveX can do with COM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-2.0.0.14-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install firefox 2. Write any script that checks on regxpcom succeeding 3. Watch your script crash and burn Actual Results: regxpcom silently fails. Expected Results: It should have succeeded or at least printed an error message. Additional info:
Created attachment 310464 [details] regxpcom call stack
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