Bug 142461 – Firefox-bin segfaulting randomly - and often.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Calum 2006-08-01 13:04:13 UTC]

calum@foo ~ $ firefox-bin
No running windows found
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/lib/amd64/libjava.so [/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/lib/amd64/libjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
****The above errors occur, and the browser runs fine. Then at some random time in the future....****
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 21031 Segmentation fault      "$mozbin" "$@"
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139)

Although it is reporting it can't find plugins, this doesn't seem to cause it.
I can go to sites with/without java/flash, and it doesn't crash.

However, simply clicking a normal hyperlink, or opening/closing a tab can cause it to crash.
Sometimes it's OK for hours. Sometimes within a few minutes of opening.
It might be that it's to do with sites using AJAX to auto-refresh certain things - but I have no evidence that this is it.

This has happened for me ever since 1.5.x.
Currently running 1.5.0.5
It's really annoying, and I'd love to get it fixed. Nothing like typing something lengthy, only to have it barf.
I am running vserver patches on this box, but I've run them for a while, and never had this problem. Of course, if necessary, I'll boot up a vanilla kernel and try it.

Portage 2.1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.16.20-vs2.1.1-rc22IPv6 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.16.20-vs2.1.1-rc22IPv6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 acl aim alsa apache2 aper avi berkdb bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia crypt dga directfb divx4linux dlloader dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode faac faad ffmpeg fla flash gd-external gdbm gif gmp gphoto2 gtk2 hardened ieee1394 imlib ipv6 jabber jack java jpeg kde linguas_en_GB live lm_sensors lzo mad maildir matroska mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msn network nls nodrm nsplugin ntlm ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar pcre perl php png postgres quotas readline rrdtool rtc samba sdl session sftplogging ssl svg tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts underscores v4l v4l2 voodoo3 vorbis xanim xfs xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Calum 2006-08-06 10:11:30 UTC]

This is doing my head in.

Never had FF crash before 1.5. And the -bin builds were pretty good.

Anyone have any ideas how I can track down what's happening?

[Comment 2 Stuart Longland (RETIRED) 2006-09-16 19:09:32 UTC]

If it's the binary version of Mozilla, then that would mean an issue you'd have to take upstream.

As I lack an AMD64 rig to test on though, I can't really confirm or deny the bug myself.  AMD64: Any ideas?

Also, do you have the same issue with the source-based ebuild?

[Comment 3 Calum 2006-09-17 08:49:39 UTC]

I reported it here, as I assume it's a Gentoo binary build - but I could be wrong.
It's mozilla-firefox-bin, by the way.

I haven't tried the source distro, as you can't get various plugins working if you're AMD64 with that.

My Mozilla Feedback agent is littered with crashes - it's bad.

[Comment 4 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-10-12 05:11:21 UTC]

The -bin is taken from upstream, so as long as the error is not in the ebuild, there is nothing we can do about it. You will have to take this to the mozilla bugtracker, I'm afraid.