Bug 98868 – Firefox seg faults with Gdk-WARNING

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Lee Trager 2005-07-13 04:23:38 UTC]

Firefox randomly crashed yesterday and after trying to start it up again I
realized I couldnt. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open out xterm
2. run firefox

Actual Results:  
No running windows found

(firefox-bin:20086): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has
wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 114: 20086 Segmentation fault      "$mozbin"
"$@"
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139)

Expected Results:  
Firefox opens

Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6
.12-ck2-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-ck2-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
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
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share
/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kd
e/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/default
s/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa amd64 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-
fonts bzlib cdb cdr crypt cups curl dedicated dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emul-linux-x8
6 encode esd ethereal examples fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ft
p gcj gdbm gif gimpprint glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib i
pv6 java javascript jp2 jpeg junit ldap lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mmap 
mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocd nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis 
openal opengl oscar oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl
 slang ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userloca
les videos vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU
 kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Sandro Bonazzola (RETIRED) 2005-07-13 04:36:46 UTC]

Which version of firefox? which ebuild? which gtk version? what have you done
yesterday? which package updated?
Try revdep-rebuild from gentoolkit package.

[Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2005-07-13 10:22:28 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96869 ***