Ruby crashes with mshtml.dll

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Hi,

I use Ruby 1.9.2.180 and it crashes several time with same error message
from event viewer. It comes and goes without any pattern and I have no
specific re-produced steps. It seems to be related to "mshtml.dll". I
checked event viewer, and it say:

  Faulting application ruby.exe, version 1.9.2.180, faulting module
mshtml.dll, version 8.0.6001.18702, fault address 0x0025ee8e.

I use watir to do web UI testing. I googled "mshtml.dll" and it is used
to handle IE layout. I try to use watir 1.8.0, 1.7.1, 1.6.7 and
ruby.exe still crashes with the same error message.

any idea?

Here is the Ruby gems I installed:
  activesupport (2.3.9)
  builder (3.0.0)
  commonwatir (1.6.7)
  firewatir (1.6.7)
  hoe (2.9.1)
  json_pure (1.5.1)
  minitest (2.0.2, 1.6.0)
  nokogiri (1.4.3.1 x86-mingw32)
  racc (1.4.6)
  rake (0.8.7)
  rake-compiler (0.7.6)
  rdoc (2.5.8)
  rexical (1.0.5)
  rubyforge (2.0.4)
  s4t-utils (1.0.4)
  test-unit (2.2.0)
  user-choices (1.1.6.1)
  watir (1.6.7)
  win32-api (1.4.8)
  win32-process (0.6.5)
  windows-api (0.4.0)
  windows-pr (1.1.3)
  xml-simple (1.0.14)

Regards,
Paservan

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Isn't that a problem with IE then?

Can you use firefox instead?

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On Mar 16, 2011, at 17:53 , Paservan NO wrote:

Faulting application ruby.exe, version 1.9.2.180, faulting module
mshtml.dll, version 8.0.6001.18702, fault address 0x0025ee8e.

I use watir to do web UI testing. I googled "mshtml.dll" and it is used
to handle IE layout. I try to use watir 1.8.0, 1.7.1, 1.6.7 and
ruby.exe still crashes with the same error message.

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From water installation page:

http://watir.com/installation/

"Windows
Install Ruby
We recommend using Ruby 1.8.6 or 1.8.7 on all platforms.

Download and install the latest version of Ruby from Downloads
Note: Ruby 1.9.x does not work out-of-the-box with Watir, sorry."

Please try Ruby 1.8.7 and let us know.

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On Mar 16, 9:53 pm, Paservan NO <zero_human...@yahoo.com.tw> wrote:

Hi,

I use Ruby 1.9.2.180 and it crashes several time with same error message
from event viewer. It comes and goes without any pattern and I have no
specific re-produced steps. It seems to be related to "mshtml.dll". I
checked event viewer, and it say:

Faulting application ruby.exe, version 1.9.2.180, faulting module
mshtml.dll, version 8.0.6001.18702, fault address 0x0025ee8e.

I use watir to do web UI testing. I googled "mshtml.dll" and it is used
to handle IE layout. I try to use watir 1.8.0, 1.7.1, 1.6.7 and
ruby.exe still crashes with the same error message.

any idea?

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Luis Lavena

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I just attempted a clean 1.9.2-p180 installation, following the
installation instructions from watir website and using the examples
too:

http://watir.com/installation/
http://watir.com/examples/

C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>ruby --version
ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18) [i386-mingw32]

C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>gem --version
1.6.2

C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

builder (3.0.0)
commonwatir (1.8.0)
firewatir (1.8.0)
hoe (2.9.1)
nokogiri (1.4.4.1 x86-mingw32)
s4t-utils (1.0.4)
user-choices (1.1.6.1)
watir (1.8.0)
win32-api (1.4.8 x86-mingw32)
win32-process (0.6.5)
windows-api (0.4.0)
windows-pr (1.1.3)
xml-simple (1.0.14)

C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>type t.rb
require "rubygems"
require "watir"

browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto("http://bit.ly/watir-example&quot;\)

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On Mar 16, 9:53 pm, Paservan NO <zero_human...@yahoo.com.tw> wrote:

Hi,

I use Ruby 1.9.2.180 and it crashes several time with same error message
from event viewer. It comes and goes without any pattern and I have no
specific re-produced steps. It seems to be related to "mshtml.dll". I
checked event viewer, and it say:

===

And worked without errors.

Something that is curious about your installation gems is win32-api.
In my case win32-api 1.4.8 was installed from binary form (1.4.8 x86-
mingw32) while in your case there is no platform binary mentioned.

For the sake of testing, can you remove the gem and install it again?

gem uninstall win32-api --all
gem install win32-api

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Luis Lavena

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Thanks for your reply

Hi Ryan Davis,

I have to use IE browser because it is my testing purpose.

Hi Luis Lavena,

IPv6 is one of my testing purposes. That is why I upgrade ruby 1.8.6 to
1.9.2 which has better support for IPv6.

I try to reinstall win32-api according to your suggested. However, I get
the same win32-api-1.4.8-x86-mingw32.gem. My OS is windows XP SP3 x86.

  C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>gem uninstall win32-api --all

  You have requested to uninstall the gem:
          win32-api-1.4.8
  windows-api-0.4.0 depends on [win32-api (>= 1.4.5)]
  windows-pr-1.1.3 depends on [win32-api (>= 1.4.5)]
  If you remove this gems, one or more dependencies will not be met.
  Continue with Uninstall? [Yn] y
  Successfully uninstalled win32-api-1.4.8

  C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>gem install win32-api
  Fetching: win32-api-1.4.8-x86-mingw32.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed win32-api-1.4.8-x86-mingw32
  1 gem installed
  Installing ri documentation for win32-api-1.4.8-x86-mingw32...
  Installing RDoc documentation for win32-api-1.4.8-x86-mingw32...

I just found a pattern (it seems like a pattern, probably...). Mostly,
ruby crashes when it is trying to open socket to send a message to
remote side. However, it doesn't crash every time it open a socket.

any idea?

Regards

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