Bug 67059 – firefox seg faults when trying to start

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description ryan 2004-10-11 01:59:59 UTC]

When I try and run firefox I am get the following error:
tak@Satellite tak $ firefox
No running windows found
/usr/bin/firefox: line 392: 17914 Segmentation fault      $mozbin "$@"
tak@Satellite tak $ firefox                                                    
No running windows found
/usr/bin/firefox: line 392:  9687 Segmentation fault      $mozbin "$@"
tak@Satellite tak $ mozilla                                                      
No running windows found
/usr/bin/mozilla: line 1:  9782 Segmentation fault      $mozbin "$@"


The same goes for mozilla-bin and firefox-bin.

here is my emerge info:
Portage 2.0.50-r11 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-rc3-mm3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa avi cups dga directfb divx4linux dmx dvd dvdread encode escreen fbcon foomaticdb gif gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mmx mpeg ncurses no-old-linux nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib pic png pnp qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse sse2 svga tcpd truetype trusted v4l v4l2 x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to run firefox
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
It has a segmentation fault like this:
/usr/bin/mozilla: line 1:  9774 Segmentation fault      $mozbin "$@"


Expected Results:  
started the program.

I do no have composite extensions.  I have moved my .mozilla directory.  I have 
re-emerged coreutils.

[Comment 1 R. Ekker 2004-11-12 18:56:31 UTC]

Hi,

The same thing happens to me. Re-emerging firefox doesn't seem to help, and thunderbird and epiphany crash too. I also removed the .mozilla and .thunderbird directories, but nothing seems to help.

[Comment 2 R. Ekker 2004-11-13 07:54:10 UTC]

Hi,

it seems to be a permission problem. What makes me think so is that, when running firefox as a normal user, I experience the same problem (crash with segfault). But when I do a "sudo firefox", everything works.

[Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-14 19:36:18 UTC]

Fixed in mozilla-launcher-1.23 which refuses to start when files in the profile are owned by another user