Bug 489900

Summary:	New firefox binaries built after gconf ebuild upgrades frequently segfault
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matthew Marlowe (RETIRED) <mattm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	gnome
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthew Marlowe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-10-30 19:24:16 UTC

On the gentoo forums, there is the following thread with many users reporting crashes:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6989240.html

Apparently on some systems, firefox segfaults whenever it is rebuilt after gconf is upgraded.
The only way to get firefox to work again is to:
- Unmerge gconf
- rm -rf /etc/gconf ~/.gconf ~/.gconfd
- Emerge gconf

I found this happening on my own dev workstation this morning....I didn't bother to open up gdb.

We probably should keep an open bug about it so users can find instructions on how to fix their systems.....It would be nice if we could find someway to have the firefox or gconf ebuilds automatically detect and fix this issue. 

I carefully review emerge messages and didn't see any pertinent notices.

Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-01-22 22:50:01 UTC

Please do not refer to a forum post and do a full bug report like you would usually do.

Is this about firefox or firefox-bin ?

Please provide emerge --info and a backtrace [1]

[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces