While messing around with the (docked) Aurora history view, I had clicked on the [+] next to the Most Frequented Pages folder. First time through, I went to debug and got the info listed below. Second time I clicked "Ignore" (three times); eleven sites are listed under this topic. Cause: ------ Line 176 of remstore.c has: XP_ASSERT( (RDF_STRING_TYPE != type) || ( IsUTF8String((const char* )v))); where at time of crash, type = 0x0003. In rdf.h is the define: #define RDF_STRING_TYPE ((RDF_ValueType)0x0003) Abbreviated stack trace: ------------------------ 1. XP_AssertAtLine(char * 0x00944ed4, int 0x000000af) line 2687 2. remoteStoreAdd(RDF_TranslatorStruct * 0x009f8120, RDF_ResourceStruct * 0x00c02120, RDF_ResourceStruct * 0x009f8bf0, void * 0x00c063d0, unsigned short 0x0003, int 0x00000001) line 175 + 86 bytes 3. collateOneHist(RDF_TranslatorStruct * 0x00a42eb0, RDF_ResourceStruct * 0x00aaea20, char * 0x02294c6e, char * 0x02294c4e, long 0x360adc0b, long 0x360adc0b, unsigned long 0x00000001, int 0x00000000) line 124 + 93 bytes 4. collateHistory(RDF_TranslatorStruct * 0x00a42eb0, RDF_ResourceStruct * 0x00aaea20, int 0x00000000) line 99 + 37 bytes 5. HistPossiblyAccessFile(RDF_TranslatorStruct * 0x00a42eb0, RDF_ResourceStruct * 0x00ab1640, RDF_ResourceStruct * 0x009f8950, int 0x00000001) line 618 + 20 bytes <Snip> Debug output: ------------- www.thehistorynet.com error=0 h_name=1 task=31 Warning: no message line prompt for ID 0xF3A8. Warning: no message line prompt for ID 0xF3A8. Warning: no message line prompt for ID 0xF3A9. Warning: no message line prompt for ID 0xF3AA. Created rdf:ht6 Warning: Creating a pane with no CDocument. Created rdf:ht7 Warning: Creating a pane with no CDocument. Created rdf:ht8 Warning: Creating a pane with no CDocument. Created rdf:ht9 Warning: Creating a pane with no CDocument. System: ------- I'm running WinNT4.0 SR3, on a 166MHz Dell Pentium with 64MB RAM and 200MB swap. In addition to WinNT processes and mozilla, I am running cdplayer.exe, MSACCESS, TASKMGR, MSDEV, CRT, and a notepad-like editor.

*** Bug 764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Okay, here's the deal with this from 764: The RDF_STRING_TYPE and 'type' have nothing to do with the bug. It's IsUTF8String() that "fails"; this checks if the string is UTF8 string, and correctly returns FALSE, which causes an assert. If it's let to continue regardless of the assert, the Visual C libraries will crash in strlen() of some sort that expects an UTF8 string. In my case, the offending string is "Forté Agent", which was sucked from my "Start=>Programs" menu. I'm yet to understand the RDF code well enough to analyze what the fix would be, but I'm guessing wrong/buggy RDF data-source wrappers/translator.

I am taking the risk and assuming somebody _has_ fixed this, since I can't reproduce either problem anymore with latest CVS pull. However, old bookmark-files with non-UTF8 characters will still mess up things. I think this is a bug, but perhaps under another bug-code.

marking verified against old code base