Bug 67052 – Firefox Crashes at start with Segmentation fault.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hargobind Khalsa 2004-10-10 23:26:28 UTC]

Every time I try to start firefox 1.0-r2 (or 1.0-r1 I have tried both) it chrashes with a segfault. If I compile firefox with debug the last line it put's out before a stack trace is:
Assertion failure: dummy1addr < &dummy2, at jsapi.c:1790
prefious to this it has given several lines of the form:
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) failed ....

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge firefox
2. run firefox
3.

Actual Results:  
firfox starts to start then segfaults.

Expected Results:  
Firefox starting up showing a firefox window.

Emerge info:

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-ppc-2004.1, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.
7-gentoo-r14)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 ppc 740/750
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
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/share/config /usr/share/texmf/
dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/
config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/
control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="aim alsa apache1 apache2 apm arts audiofile berkdb cgi chroot crypt dnd doc 
encode f77 fbcon freetype fs gd gdbm gif glut gnome-libs gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 
guile icq imagemagick imap imlib jabber javamail javascript jpeg libwww maildir 
motif moznomail mpeg mpeg4 msn music mysql ncurses nls oav odbc oggvorbis 
oldworld openal opengl openssh oscar pam pdflib perl php physfs plotutils png 
ppc ppds prelude python quicktime readline regexp sasl sdl sheep slang slp snmp 
spell spl ssl stroke tcltk tcpd tcsim tetex tidy tiff timidity tokenizer 
truetype unicode usb videos virus-scan wxwindows xface xml xml2 xmms yahoo zeo 
zlib"

[Comment 1 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) 2004-10-31 19:34:37 UTC]

Could you look, if you have the same problems like in bug 67021?

[Comment 2 Hargobind Khalsa 2004-11-05 11:35:03 UTC]

No I don't think the problem is the same as 67021. First of all it segfaults before anything visable happens. Second no message other than the one reporting the seg fault is shown. Finaly, it has been too long since I last tryed but I seem to rember trying it with the flag to use GTK2, it is posible that I diceded against that option because it wanted to emerge something but I don't think thats the case.

Thanks for the response,
        Hargobind

[Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-14 18:25:44 UTC]

Your report references firefox-1.0-r2 and -r1; I can only assume that you meant 1.0_rc1 and 1.0_rc2 based on the date you filed this bug.

Hopefully it's fixed in 1.0-r2.  Please re-open if you can still reproduce the problem.

[Comment 4 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2004-12-18 11:58:49 UTC]

this was a ppc and not ppc64 bug...