Bug 42782 – mozilla-firefox seg faults when attempting to save form field information

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description postmodern 2004-02-24 11:35:20 UTC]

When using mozilla-firefox to save form information such as passwords and usernames in web logins a seg fault is received.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run firefox
2. find a website with user input forms
3. fill one out and submit
4. when firefox prompts to save the info accept.

Actual Results:  
SEG FAULT

Expected Results:  
firefox should save the entered information in its database for later use.

[Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-04-07 20:33:12 UTC]

What version of mozilla-firefox?  Please post output of "emerge info".  I haven't heard of this problem before, and I use this feature all the time.

[Comment 2 Richard Freeman 2004-04-08 04:18:48 UTC]

It happens with v0.8.  The binary version works fine (of course in 32-bit mode).  Note that this is a problem only on AMD64.

While I didn't report this, here is my emerge info:

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r2-rf9)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2-rf9 x86_64 4
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home /opt/zetagrid /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/freenet /var/qmail/control /var/www"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache gpg sandbox severe userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa amd64 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd ethereal evo fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib innodb java jpeg kde libg++ libwww maildir mikmod motif mozilla mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype wmf xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-04-26 07:36:30 UTC]

I guess this is an amd64-only bug

[Comment 4 postmodern 2004-04-26 10:44:26 UTC]

So far thats what I've seen.

[Comment 5 Wade 2004-05-22 18:35:58 UTC]

I get this issue as well, on AMD64. The dialog to save the form data pops up twice, also, incase that is related.

emerge info:
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.4.0, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r1, 2.6.6-mm4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.6-mm4 x86_64 12
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -frename-registers -fweb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -frename-registers -fweb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://130.95.3.26/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo crypt divx4linux encode esd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod mozilla mpeg ncurses nogcj nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png propolice python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 6 Herbie Hopkins (RETIRED) 2004-06-17 08:21:27 UTC]

This crash seems to have been fixed with the latest version, 0.9.

[Comment 7 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) 2004-07-10 03:10:11 UTC]

Thanks Herbie!

[Comment 8 Richard Freeman 2004-08-19 19:00:16 UTC]

FYI - the mozilla bugzilla now contains a fix for this bug.  Any chance of making sure it ends up in portage?

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248442