Bug#644620: iceweasel: Iceweasel throws NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE error when 'browser.dom.window.dump.enabled' property is true

[Stéphane Thomas]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.6.23-1~bpo50+1
Severity: normal


If I start Iceweasel 3.6 on Debian with an empty profile and only the following 'user.js' file:

  user_pref("browser.dom.window.dump.enabled", true);

The following error is thrown:

*** e = [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: getShellService :: line 326"  data: no]

This does not prevent Firefox from working (as far as I can say), but this might affect logging. Note Firefox was started as root, so this issue has probably nothing to do with permissions.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.9
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils           2.30               Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig            2.6.0-3            generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                 2.7-18lenny7       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.16.6-3           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.12.12-1~lenny2   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d           4.8.6-1~bpo50+1    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6            4.3.2-1.1          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                1:3.2.7-11         /proc file system utilities
ii  xulrunner-1.9.2       1.9.2.23-1~bpo50+1 XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny6 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn  mozplugger      <none>                   (no description available)
pn  ttf-lyx | latex <none>                   (no description available)
pn  ttf-mathematica <none>                   (no description available)
pn  xfonts-mathml   <none>                   (no description available)
pn  xprint          <none>                   (no description available)

Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.2 depends on:
ii  libasound2     1.0.23-2.1~bpo50+1        shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0    1.22.0-1                  The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.5-1+lenny1            high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6          2.7-18lenny7              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2      1.8.8-2~bpo50+1           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3    1.2.1-5+lenny2            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1~bpo50+1   An asynchronous event notification
ii  libffi5        3.0.7-1                   Foreign Function Interface library
ii  libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3                   generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6   2.3.7-2+lenny6            FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1        1:4.3.2-1.1               GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.16.6-3                  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0    2.12.12-1~lenny2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1. 1.2.6-1                   spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62      6b-14                     The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmozjs3d     1.9.2.23-1~bpo50+1        The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii  libnspr4-0d    4.8.6-1~bpo50+1           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d     3.12.8-1+squeeze3~bpo50+1 Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0  1.20.5-6                  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0  0.16.4-1~bpo50+1          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0     1.2.27-2+lenny5           PNG library - runtime
ii  libreadline5   5.2-3.1                   GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.7.3-1~bpo50+1           SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstartup-not 0.9-1                     library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6     4.3.2-1.1                 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6       2:1.1.5-2                 X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1    1:0.9.4-2                 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6         1:1.0.5-3                 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12         compression library - runtime

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