Bug 147475 – Firefox 1.5.0.5 randomly segfaults (SIG33 error)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Seph 2006-09-13 09:58:28 UTC]

Just upgraded to firefox 1.5.0.5: it sistematically crashes with a SIG33 error.

GDB trace:
(gdb) handle SIG33 nostop noprint
Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
SIG33         No        No      Yes             Real-time event 33
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1220233552 (LWP 30643)]
[New Thread -1221276768 (LWP 30649)]
[New Thread -1238901856 (LWP 30650)]
[New Thread -1253237856 (LWP 30651)]
[New Thread -1266619488 (LWP 30653)]
[New Thread -1275012192 (LWP 30654)]
[Thread -1266619488 (LWP 30653) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1220233552 (LWP 30643)]
0xb370eb5c in FAMMonitorDirectory () from /usr/lib/libfam.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb370eb5c in FAMMonitorDirectory () from /usr/lib/libfam.so.0
#1  0xbfb99620 in ?? ()
#2  0xbfb99548 in ?? ()
#3  0xb7f0a24c in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)


emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17 -gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Last Sync: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:59:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disable d]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shu tdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/ terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/d istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi adns alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bo nobo bzip2 cairo cdb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups curl dbus dga divx dlloader d ri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk g tk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard inp ut_devices_mouse isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux libg++ lm_sensors mad matroska m ikmod mmx mmx2 mono mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvtv off ogg  oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python q t3 quicktime readline reflection rtc sdl session sndfile sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userla nd_GNU v4l video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xosd xv  xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTA GE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Colin Kingsley (RETIRED) 2006-09-14 02:02:04 UTC]

Exact same problem. I'll get you a backtrace or a core file when I've got time to recompile with debug symbols. Poke me on irc if you want to.

[Comment 2 Seph 2006-09-14 08:58:41 UTC]

Upgraded to thunderbird 1.5.0.5 and the same thing happens.. Seems like this is a common bug with the Mozilla suite.
I think this happens because of my recent gcc update, i'm trying to rebuild all firefox deep dependencies, let's see what happens then.

[Comment 3 Stuart Longland (RETIRED) 2006-09-25 05:35:59 UTC]

1.5.0.7 was recently added, which includes a number of security fixes.

Can people please re-test with this latest release and report back?

Thanks.

[Comment 4 Seph 2006-09-26 05:53:12 UTC]

nope, version 1.5.0.7 crashes anyway on my machine. 
it's still the same segmentation fault error in FAMMonitorDirectory() 

[Comment 5 Christian Marie (RETIRED) 2006-12-22 05:13:41 UTC]

Please reopen if the problem persists with firefox 1.5.0.9, tecrel that backtrace would be great if you can reproduce with the latest stable.