Bug 235300 – www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.1 - segmentation fault loading [URL]

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Konstantin 2008-08-20 15:43:57 UTC]

Hello, I think, I found a bug, but couldn't clearly understand, what bug it is. So I report it here.
I pointed my firefox to link 
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17a_v1.0.18rc1
and Xorg crashed. The only error message I've get, was

Tab readonly? 
30 95 68 78
cl:	calcTabClr
Tab readonly? 
30 95 68 78
Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x86) [0x80d725c]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

I want to attache backtrace, but do not know, how to debug Xorg, which I run via startx script.
 Software version:
www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.1 (USE="custom-optimization dbus gnome java linguas_en startup-notification xulrunner")
x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6 (USE="dri input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse nptl sdl video_cards_i810 xorg")
gcc --version
gcc (Gentoo 4.3.1-r1 p1.1) 4.3.1...


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. startx
2. open in firefox http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17a_v1.0.18rc1
3.

Actual Results:  
segmentation fault

Expected Results:  
no fault.

[Comment 1 Konstantin 2008-08-20 15:46:22 UTC]

There is no problem, if I download the page by other program and open it from disk.

[Comment 2 Konstantin 2008-08-20 15:48:39 UTC]

Created attachment 163396 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 3 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-08-28 17:28:08 UTC]

Try with a clean profile and with -bin.

[Comment 4 Nico R. Wohlgemuth 2008-09-16 16:43:36 UTC]

firefox 3.X segfaults for me on random sites too.

example sites: 
- http://www.hardcoreradio.nl/
- thepiratebay.org search result page
- MANY OTHERS

When the piratebay search result page is loading and I click "stop loading this page" it does not segfault. This works on some others too. 

It just segfaults. I don't know if this is flash related but I think it's not since there was no flash code at all on some sites where it segfaults. Also it's not add-on related I have tested this with a clean profile and no add-ons.

This is really annoying.

[Comment 5 Konstantin 2008-09-17 03:33:20 UTC]

hm, i'm visited http://www.hardcoreradio.nl/ without problem. nico, what about my link?

[Comment 6 Nico R. Wohlgemuth 2008-09-17 12:01:53 UTC]

The alsa page works for me. Hmm this is so random.

[Comment 7 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-09-22 08:52:48 UTC]

Please guys try with what i said on comment 3

[Comment 8 Konstantin 2008-09-22 16:38:46 UTC]

 Raúl, may you explain a little bit, what is clean profile? And what do you mean by "-bin"? There is no such USE-flag. Or do you speak about www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin?

[Comment 9 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-09-24 16:02:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
>  Raúl, may you explain a little bit, what is clean profile? And what do you
> mean by "-bin"? There is no such USE-flag. Or do you speak about
> www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin?
> 

Yes, i'm speaking about that. And with a clean profile, i mean move away your ~/.mozilla dir, and try running firefox again.

[Comment 10 Nico R. Wohlgemuth 2008-09-24 17:35:56 UTC]

3.0.2 changelog says:
- A random crash that occurred with some layout tables was fixed.

Maybe that is the problem here, let's see if the problems happen with 3.0.2 too.

[Comment 11 Nico R. Wohlgemuth 2008-09-25 15:55:35 UTC]

Yup, no crashes so far with 3.0.2, I have tested various sites which crashed 3.0.1 for me. So this is an upstream problem which is fixed in 3.0.2.

[Comment 12 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-11-17 11:01:17 UTC]

Konstantin? Anything new here?

[Comment 13 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-11-23 12:35:53 UTC]

Reopen if so

[Comment 14 Konstantin 2008-11-23 14:18:09 UTC]

 Sorry for not answering. With clean profile everything works. But I couldn't use firefox this way, because of bookmarks. I've tried to delete firefox extentions, but it still crashs from time to time. Any advice, how to deal with crashs?