Last attempt, a few years ago, blatantly failed because nautilus (the
GNOME file manager) can't start PIE executables, which look like shared
libraries, and that it thus considers not being executables.
Downstreams don't actually have the problem, because users won't be
launching Firefox from a file manager, but for mozilla.org builds, it is
a problem because users would download, then extract, and then likely
try to run the Firefox executable from a file manager.
So for mozilla.org builds, we still need to find a way around the
nautilus problem.
A .desktop file could be a solution, but .desktop files have not
actually been designed for this use case, which leads to:
- having to use an awful one-liner shell wrapper to derive the path
to the executable from that of the .desktop file,
- not even being able to associate an icon,
- the .desktop file not being copiable to a location where .desktop
files would normally go, because it would then fail to find the
executable.
Another possibility is to go back to using a shell wrapper, but that's
not entirely appealing.
What we chose here is similar, where we have a small `firefox` wrapper
that launches the real `firefox-bin` (which is still leftover from those
old times where we had a shell wrapper, for reasons).
The small `firefox` wrapper is a minimalist C executable that just
finds the path to the `firefox-bin` executable and executes it with the
same args it was called with. The wrapper is only enabled when the
MOZ_NO_PIE_COMPAT environment variable is set, which we only take into
account on Linux. The variable is only really meant to be used for
mozilla.org builds, for the nautilus problem. Downstreams will just pick
the default, which is changed to build PIE.
On other platforms, PIE was already enabled by default, so we just
remove the --enable-pie configure flag.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D5109
I was there, looking at a Firefox directory in my file manager while
working on bug 1079662, when I noticed the `Throbber-small.gif`
appearing first in the list, and wondering where it came from. And I
found it's there for the crashreporter UI. Fair enough.
But back when it was added in bug 404855, the file was also used for
Firefox, which is why it's taken from the Firefox theme. Interestingly,
back then, the file was duplicated in multiple themes, but was taken
from the windows theme rather than the gnome theme. Figures.
Anyways, later down the road, in bug 421595, Firefox replaced the gif
throbber with an APNG version. Then even later, bug 418003 removed the
unused gif throbber files, leaving the Windows one alone because it's
used by the crashreporter client moz.build (Makefile, back then), but
still removed the reference from the jar.mn.
9 years later, here we are, still using a file from the Windows theme,
that is not actually part of the Windows theme, for the Linux
crashreporter.
--HG--
rename : toolkit/themes/windows/global/throbber/Throbber-small.gif => toolkit/crashreporter/client/Throbber-small.gif
- Make crash submission explicit by triggering it via a button instead of by
clicking on the crash ID link.
- Replace the single "Remove All Reports" button with two "Clear All" buttons,
one for each category of crashes.
- Add a "View" button instead of making crash IDs links to make it explicit that
you are viewing crash data and not submitting it.
Remove implicit dependence of the order of crash IDs in about:crashes test.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D4728
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
Automatic changes by ESLint, except for manual corrections for .xml files.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D4439
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
The about:crashes page's user interface is being updated (bug 1463515).
- changed crash submission to be done through button press instead of link clicking
- this allows users to know that they are submitting the crash
- updated visuals to match new mock-up
- mock-up image: https://bug1463515.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8990380
- added new Fluent strings that are needed for the new user interface
- modernized the surrounding code
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D2792
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
In order to implement profile-per-install we need a mutable INI parser in early
startup. The current one is implemented in JavaScript and thus not available.
This makes the current read-only C++ INI parser mutable and removes the
JavaScript implementation.
It turns out that the two different implementations of nsIINIParserFactory and
nsIINIParser behaved slightly differently but only in ways that the single test
cared about so I've adjusted things a little to make it work.
The existing C++ implementation did not do validity checks on arguments, this
adds that making empty sections and values illegal.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D3851
--HG--
rename : xpcom/tests/unit/test_iniProcessor.js => xpcom/tests/unit/test_iniParser.js
extra : source : 524941c8ed0e048ee51be1bd11082b41428ef490
extra : amend_source : 2de6cef5be97448a41733bedda29d6af34aed27a
This adds support for the DW_AT_ranges attribute when dumping out symbols and
adds basic support for AArch64 (64-bit ARM) on Windows in the minidump
processor.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D3443
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extra : moz-landing-system : lando
This introduces the machinery needed to generate crash annotations from a YAML
file. The relevant C++ functions are updated to take a typed enum. JavaScript
calls are unaffected but they will throw if the string argument does not
correspond to one of the known entries in the C++ enum. The existing whitelists
and blacklists of annotations are also generated from the YAML file and all
duplicate code related to them has been consolidated. Once written out to the
.extra file the annotations are converted in string form and are no different
than the existing ones.
All existing annotations have been included in the list (and some obsolete ones
have been removed) and all call sites have been updated including tests where
appropriate.
--HG--
extra : source : 4f6c43f2830701ec5552e08e3f1b06fe6d045860
Summary:
The about:crashes page is being updated (bug 1463515). To facilitate these changes,
this patch changes the about:crashes page to use Fluent for localization instead of the old systems.
This also includes a script to migrate strings from the old .DTD and .properties files
to the new .ftl one.
Test Plan:
1. build Firefox with the changes
2. run Firefox
3. go to the about:crashes page
4. expect nothing to be different
This extension: https://github.com/rhelmer/webext-experiment-crashme can be used to
add local crash reports for verifying the different states of the about:crashes page.
Reviewers: flod, Pike, jchen, snorp
Reviewed By: flod, Pike, jchen, snorp
Subscribers: nalexander, reviewbot
Bug #: 1476034
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D2225
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : 0ca9516b4df78e735fd03907f2ea324bc72ca893
- In bug 1356382, jsoncpp was moved from toolkit/crashreporter
to toolkit/components
- update-jsoncpp.sh has been moved to the components directory
and updated to match the new directories.
MozReview-Commit-ID: Cl71Dwoyn0N
--HG--
rename : toolkit/crashreporter/update-jsoncpp.sh => toolkit/components/update-jsoncpp.sh
extra : rebase_source : ca8c82b9bfa731e2250642533b68b21cb3ec85f1
Use the fact that a JobIntentService is still a Service to keep most of the
previous implementation and method of starting CrashReportingService.
On 26+ devices it will be called with "start-foreground-service".
This ensures it can be started even from background and the crash reporting
process would work as before but ActivityManager will post an ANR error to
logcat after 5 seconds because we aren't calling Service.startForeground()
(which would mean a user visible notification).
Will use different Job Ids depending on if the app is Firefox Release or
Firefox Beta.
The Job Id will be passed to GeckoThread when first initializing and then be
made available to CrashHandler and nsExceptionHandler.cpp to be sent in the
Intent that starts the CrashReporterService.
MozReview-Commit-ID: GATl6Waa9St
--HG--
extra : amend_source : 70bc130b9411df336181e825ebb3e19bdc5a778c
The new version of breakpad imported in bug 1309172 doesn't demangle
rust symbols at all, contrary to before, where it tried to C++ demangle
them, which worked for many, although far from all. It however has
rust-demangle support as long as it's linked against a copy of the
rust-demangle-capi crate from https://github.com/luser/rust-demangle-capi/
This imports the code from the rust-demangle-capi crate but because of
some build system complications it's not taken as-is:
- it uses rusty-cheddar, which is deprecated, to generate a C header.
- rusty-cheddar depends on syntex_syntax, which now fails to build.
- rust-demangle-capi has crate-type staticlib, which can't be used
as a dependency in a Cargo.toml. For that reason, we can't create
a fake crate that depends on it to have it vendored.
Overall, it's only a few lines of rust, and the C header can be written
manually, so this is what we do here. The created crate is named in a way
specific to dump_syms.
The build system doesn't know how to figure out what system libraries
are required to link rust static libraries, although the rust compiler
has /some/ support to get the information, so we handle that manually.
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : 9f5a9bfe2148d3040e11c7121a88e85a7f2d5c53
This makes one less place where we link code compiled for libxul into a
place that doesn't link mozglue, and is cleaner to boot. We don't need
the BREAKPAD_NO_TERMINATE_THREAD define that breakpad-windows-libxul
defines because we're not including the handler code in the
crashreporter binary.
This will make sure that when running |mach python-test --python 3| locally,
we only run the tests that also run in CI with python 3 (and therefore pass
presumably).
MozReview-Commit-ID: 3OBr9yLSlSq
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : 456340d0ecdddf1078f2b5b4ebb1eddf3813b26a
This includes both the vanilla sources we haven't forked and the client
sources that we have. Client patches were applied manually up to version
69c2c51dd89965d234eec16e3a9353634831916b. The following changes were not
included as they break merging segments corresponding to libxul.so in the
module list:
8915f7be39448d9257b6da3ad0233944d1d9a92a
17ad0c18b179c135fc5a3d2bba199c3fa4276035
94b6309aecaddfcf11672f6cfad9575d68ad3b40
With these changes applied two entries for libxul.so are generated, the second
one is bogus and prevents symbolication from working correctly.
The build system and some of the tools relying on breakpad were also updated
to work with the new version.
--HG--
extra : source : fe4d49307f8890a0c430c257c96f74a9552eeb31
extra : histedit_source : bc84861445bd93856cd0d0c864fd15ad7d9ccc12%2C1efd65797da46e33481afa61a302098780b0f107
Fairly straightforward, just a blanket removal. Haven't heard
anything on dev-platform or fx-data-dev regarding this removal,
so I think it's likely safe to remove on Nightly, and we can
revert if anyone makes a fuss.
As part of removing the HangMonitor, I renamed a few things and
reorganized the namespaces to not depend on a HangMonitor
namespace. Hopefully this doesn't produce too much noise in the
diff, it just seemed appropriate to move everything around
rather than keep dangling vestiges of the old system.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 8C8NFnOP5GU
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : dd000a05bfc2da40c586644d33ca4508fa5330f6
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