Session 9 - what does it take to start again on Vista?

NOTE=I've skipped session 8 until I have the lab done

Well, I wanted to do the lab that my professor told us to do (Modify the browser ) and I normally bring a hard drive with my source and build there so I can pour into the class' computer but I forgot it!!

I had three options:

• Build on the PC from the lab (get the source code again and build), but this required too much time!!
• Get the source code and the build from somebody else, I tried to get it by using my iPod (the transfer said that it would take 50 miuntes!!) and through a DVD (which was only finalized by the end of the class)
• Or just work on the research that required the lab (which I did and I got the answer but couldn't test it)
  

Afterwards, I got angry and I said: why other people have been able to build on Vista and not me?????

It was over, I had to tackle this and stop building at my brother's computer or on the borrowed mac!!!
"Today, I should have the minefield build running on my laptop (which uses Vista)!!"

• I deleted the whole source code
• I ran the environment as administrator (right click on msvc8.bat and "run as administrator")
  
• I got it again
• new .mozconfig
• build a debug-build
• and voila!!!!
• real 232m57.500s (232/60=3h52min)
  user 4m56.726s
  sys 13m46.088s
• this long time might be that I had something running wrong on Vista, since the CPU wasn't being used more than 10%. I closed some programs and killed some processed and it seemed to go faster, but I did this almost like 3 hours and half after started
• TODO - Research on how to take advantage of my dual core and build below 60 minutes
• I run this:
  $> ../obj-i686-pc-mingw32/dist/bin/firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager
  and did not run properly
• The I run this:
  $> export XPCOM_DEBUG_BREAK=warn
  $> ../obj-i686-pc-mingw32/dist/bin/firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager
  It run but it looked like this:

• pretty empty, isn't?
• Look at this screenshots of the errors I saw behind the screen (it shows Leaks or something):

• Then I did this:
  $> obj-i686-pc-mingw32/dist/bin/firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager > afterRun.log
  The contents below:
  

• ++WEBSHELL 014192F8 == 1
  ++DOMWINDOW == 1
  ++DOMWINDOW == 2
  --WEBSHELL 014192F8 == 0
  --DOMWINDOW == 1
  --DOMWINDOW == 0
  nsStringStats
  => mAllocCount: 7042
  => mReallocCount: 636
  => mFreeCount: 7042
  => mShareCount: 6015
  => mAdoptCount: 1380
  => mAdoptFreeCount: 1380
  ++WEBSHELL 02FD6008 == 1
  ++DOMWINDOW == 1
  ************************************************************
  * Call to xpconnect wrapped JSObject produced this error: *
  [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 :: file:///c:/ff3/obj-i686-pc-mingw32/dist/bin/components/nsBrowserGlue.js :: bg__initPlaces :: line 297" data: no]
  ************************************************************
  ++DOMWINDOW == 2
  ++WEBSHELL 04519E00 == 2
  ++DOMWINDOW == 3
  ++DOMWINDOW == 4
  ++WEBSHELL 06478C18 == 3
  ++DOMWINDOW == 5
  ++DOMWINDOW == 6
  --WEBSHELL 02FD6008 == 2
  --WEBSHELL 04519E00 == 1
  --WEBSHELL 06478C18 == 0
  --DOMWINDOW == 5
  --DOMWINDOW == 4
  --DOMWINDOW == 3
  --DOMWINDOW == 2
  nsStringStats
  => mAllocCount: 16815
  => mReallocCount: 2957
  => mFreeCount: 16092 -- LEAKED 723 !!!
  => mShareCount: 14500
  => mAdoptCount: 2038
  => mAdoptFreeCount: 2024 -- LEAKED 14 !!!
  

• I still had the weird leaks and the weird run of minefield, which would still work

• Let's CREATE A NEW PROFILE
• It works!!!!!
  But I have to raise some things I realized:
  

  • When I run the corrupted profile, I get these leaks:
    => mFreeCount: 15663 -- LEAKED 666 !!!
    => mShareCount: 14267
    => mAdoptCount: 2003
    => mAdoptFreeCount: 1989 -- LEAKED 14 !!
  • The first time I run a just create a profile and use it:
    It asks me twice for a profile to select and the warnings dialog boxes appeared as if I didn't call export XPCOM_DEBUG_BREAK=warn

I hope you enjoyed this post and my next adventure would be to add that patch that I have to create for the lab; See you soon!