I resynced and did a world update yesterday, and now Firefox crashes on startup, before displaying any windows. I've tried moving my profile aside, and moving all plugins out of the way, with no change. Also tried downgrading back to 2.0.0.2, but the crash persists -- so possibly a dependent package upgrade broke it? Recompiled with FEATURES=nostrip, so backtrace is below; looks like it has something to do with javascript? Any more information I can provide? Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x10bc6a80 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x10bc6a80 in ?? () #1 0x0fe7df90 in nsCategoryManager::NotifyObservers ( this=<value optimized out>, aTopic=0xfecf59c "xpcom-category-entry-added", aCategoryName=0xeafa2cc "component-loader", aEntryName=<value optimized out>) at nsCategoryManager.cpp:554 #2 0x0fe7e524 in nsCategoryManager::AddCategoryEntry (this=0x1005a218, aCategoryName=0xeafa2cc "component-loader", aEntryName=0xeafa2e0 "text/javascript", aValue=0xeafa2f0 "@mozilla.org/moz/jsloader;1", aPersist=1, aReplace=1, _retval=0x7fbd0f7c) at nsCategoryManager.cpp:621 #3 0x0ead1160 in RegisterJSLoader (aCompMgr=<value optimized out>, aPath=<value optimized out>, registryLocation=<value optimized out>, componentType=<value optimized out>, info=<value optimized out>) at ./../loader/mozJSLoaderConstructors.h:70 #4 0x0fe320d8 in nsGenericModule::RegisterSelf (this=0x1005cec8, aCompMgr=0x10072f00, aPath=0x10072f38, registryLocation=0xfecf59c "xpcom-category-entry-added", componentType=0x7fbd0dbc "") at nsGenericFactory.cpp:419 #5 0x0fe897d0 in nsNativeComponentLoader::SelfRegisterDll (this=0x10045540, dll=0x1005ca08, registryLocation=0x1005fb30 "rel:libxpconnect.so", deferred=<value optimized out>) at nsNativeComponentLoader.cpp:421 #6 0x0fe8a484 in nsNativeComponentLoader::AutoRegisterComponent ( this=0x10045540, when=0, component=0x7fbd14d4, registered=0x7fbd1658) at nsNativeComponentLoader.cpp:880 #7 0x0fe894a8 in nsNativeComponentLoader::RegisterComponentsInDir ( this=0x10072f00, when=268906296, dir=<value optimized out>) at nsNativeComponentLoader.cpp:242 #8 0x0fe88e64 in nsNativeComponentLoader::AutoRegisterComponents ( this=0x10072f00, aWhen=268906296, aDirectory=0xfecf59c) at nsNativeComponentLoader.cpp:182 #9 0x0fe81240 in nsComponentManagerImpl::AutoRegisterImpl (this=0x1004a0e0, when=0, inDirSpec=0x0, fileIsCompDir=<value optimized out>) at nsComponentManager.cpp:3191 #10 0x0fe815fc in nsComponentManagerImpl::AutoRegister (this=0x1004a0e0, aSpec=0x0) at nsComponentManager.cpp:3404 #11 0x0fe35284 in NS_InitXPCOM3_P (result=<value optimized out>, binDirectory=0xfee3648, appFileLocationProvider=0x7fbd1a50, staticComponents=0x7fbd17f0, componentCount=<value optimized out>) at nsXPComInit.cpp:635 #12 0x10005050 in ScopedXPCOMStartup::Initialize (this=0x10072f00) at nsAppRunner.cpp:797 #13 0x10008750 in XRE_main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>, aAppData=<value optimized out>) at nsAppRunner.cpp:1620 #14 0x1000376c in main (argc=268906240, argv=0x10072f38) at nsBrowserApp.cpp:61 emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.4 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2007.0/desktop/G4, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r1 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r1 ppc 7447/7457, altivec supported Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:20:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 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Please try with 2.0.0.6; also is the -g3 thing your normal C[XX]FLAGS? You shouldn't do it, known to break things.
My mistake - I actually was running 2.0.0.6, and 2.0.0.4 crashed as well. But, you're right, it was the -g3. I usually don't have it in there, but I was trying to get a useful backtrace out of swfdec the other day... That's weird though: adding debugging info causes segfaults in some apps? Sounds pretty broken to me.
