Bug 11695 – Mozilla-1.2.1 crashes in a repeatable fashion

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-12-06 16:04:57 UTC]

Mozilla 1.2.1 crashes in a reproducible manner.  The official Mozilla binaries
do not crash this way, so I'm guessing that this has something to do with the
compilation process.

Anyhow, when I go to google advanced group search and input a query that returns
no results, mozilla crashes on me.  For example:
1. go to http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
2. enter "foo" in the "with all of the words" box.
3. enter "bar" in the "Return only messages from the newsgroup" (yes, it should
really be *bar*; we are doing this on purpose to get no results).
4. hit enter.
This is where mozilla crashes.

I have it compiled against gtk-1.2 with gcc 2.95.   My USE flags are:

   USE="dvd avi alsa oggvorbis png tiff jpeg xface lucid -mule -gpm 
        -gnome -kde -motif -ar"
   CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O2 -pipe"

I am compiling using the ebuild with CVS revision number 1.4.  Mozilla does not
print any error messages when it starts or dies.  Let me know if you need any
more information.

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-08 13:21:27 UTC]

Works fine here .. have a look at:

  http://cvs.gentoo.org/~azarah/bug_11695.png

I will test it at work box during week as well, as its a gcc2 box.

[Comment 2 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-12-08 14:24:09 UTC]

I just reproduced this bug on another machine: crashes just the same way.
The USE flags are about the same here.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 07:20:20 UTC]

Still working fine on 1.2 Gentoo profile with gcc-2.95.3.  This is with either
gtk1 or gtk2 ....  Check maybe 1.2.1-r1, although nothing have really changed that
could fix this issue ...

[Comment 4 Todd Geders 2002-12-19 10:36:31 UTC]

Just want to verify on my Gentoo 1.2 machine (2.95.3) using Mozilla 1.2.1-r0
does not have this problem.  USE flags are as follows:

USE="-3dnow sse pnp fbcon tcltk aalib tiff ggi dvd xmms flash imap mozilla
plotutils tetex java perl python atlas doc"

[Comment 5 Miguel Sousa Filipe 2002-12-19 11:59:33 UTC]

Could not repeat the problem.
[117p] quark : /opt/distributed.net $ emerge info
Portage 2.0.46-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1500+
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx 
mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib 
gdbm berkdb slang readline svga tcltk sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd 
imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla cdr X gtk2 sse java gnome -kde 
-alsa -cups -arts"
ARCH="x86"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config 
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
JDK_HOME="/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01"
JAVA_HOME="/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uevora.pt/gentoo"

[Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-25 17:56:03 UTC]

This still works for me.

[Comment 7 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-12-28 15:44:17 UTC]

After upgrading a lot of packages the bug is gone for me as well.  I don't know
for sure what was causing it, though, but it's gone.