Bug 498180 – www-client/firefox-26.0 - crashes?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description snowy.mail 2014-01-15 17:19:28 UTC]

www-client/firefox-26.0 crashes unexpectedly. Unfortunately without known cause, but often when a pdf should be opened or saved or if the VDR-website of my own server is opened

Reproducible: Sometimes




I tried without add-ons and plugins (e.g. adobe-flash) - still crashes.
Downgraded x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers from 331.20 to 319.76 - still crashes.
Disabled webgl in firefox - still crashes.

Downgrade to www-client/firefox-24.2.0 - works again, no crashes (with all add-ons, plugins, etc., enabled)

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-01-16 13:37:20 UTC]

1) Please post your `emerge --info www-client/firefox' output in a comment.
2) Please open a console and post the entire command output from a crash.
3) Try to run firefox with gdb and obtain a full backtrace.

[Comment 2 snowy.mail 2014-01-19 12:27:49 UTC]

Created attachment 368136 [details]
emerge --info firefox

[Comment 3 snowy.mail 2014-01-19 12:28:17 UTC]

Created attachment 368138 [details]
gdb firefox

[Comment 4 snowy.mail 2014-01-19 12:31:29 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> 1) Please post your `emerge --info www-client/firefox' output in a comment.

see attachments

> 2) Please open a console and post the entire command output from a crash.

strange: when launching firefox from konsole I can not reproduce the crash. However, if I launch it from the lxde-menu it crashes trying to display my VDR webpage (local server)

> 3) Try to run firefox with gdb and obtain a full backtrace.

see attachments

[Comment 5 snowy.mail 2014-01-19 12:36:02 UTC]

Created attachment 368140 [details]
gdb firefox

gdb firefox with bt

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-01-19 12:37:13 UTC]

Comment on attachment 368140 [details]
gdb firefox

Please try again. The important bits are missing "no debugging symbols found". This might help:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces

[Comment 7 snowy.mail 2014-01-22 18:47:23 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #6)
> Please try again. The important bits are missing "no debugging symbols
> found". This might help:
> 
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces

I followed your advice, thanks.

Symbols are read now, but unfortunately, when running firefox from gdb or konsole I no longer can reproduce the crash.

If I start firefox from the lxde-menu it can be crashed reproducibly...