Bug 220699

Summary: firefox get SIGSEGV and refuses to start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version: rawhideCC: kmberry, wtogami
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gdb output from an attempt to start firefox
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Firefox-2.0.0.1-2.fc7 debuginfo backtrace none

Description Michal Jaegermann 2006-12-23 16:58:13 UTC 
Description of problem:

Firefox updated to firefox-2.0.0.1-2.fc7 opens its window and
immediately bombs out.  When trying to run from a console I am seeing
just this:

GTK Accessibility Module initialized
Segmentation fault

and with 'ulimit' for cores high enough one of 141 Megs in size is
produced.

A backtrace from a run under gdb is attached.  I am running that
on x86_64 machine (although I would be really surprised if that would
turn out architecture specific although accidents in a configuration
may be significant).  Oh, and /usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd is
running so this looks really different from bug 217152.

As I am seeing a similar behaviour from other programs too I start
to wonder if this is not really related to bug 210718 with
fontconfig beeing the real culprit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-2.0.0.1-2.fc7

How reproducible:
every time
Comment 1 Michal Jaegermann 2006-12-23 16:58:13 UTC 
Created attachment 144331 [details]
gdb output from an attempt to start firefox
Comment 2 Jay Cliburn 2006-12-23 23:36:14 UTC 
Created attachment 144334 [details]
Firefox-2.0.0.1-2.fc7 debuginfo backtrace
Comment 3 Jay Cliburn 2006-12-23 23:40:00 UTC 
Comment #2 contains a debuginfo backtrace of a firefox crash on my x86_64
rawhide system, an Asus M2V motherboard running a custom 2.6.20-rc1-current-git
kernel.  The crash is very similar to Michal's.  Similar enough to be considered
a duplicate, I think.
Comment 4 kmberry 2007-01-21 01:59:48 UTC 
I was forced to erase my fc7 because selinux permissions wouldn't let mkinitrd
make a good image with 2.6.19 rpm.  Everything worked before.  Now since my
fresh install firefox just dumped one day and would only work as root.  Today I
had to report segfault after GTK Accessibility Module initialized on
bittorrent-5.0.5 which started with move to python-2.6 and figured I'd report
this also.  I lost all my bookmarks moving .mozilla back upon itself and have
been using the firefox and thunderbird builds off mozilla.org ever since because
both only work as root whether selinux is off or not.  I thought it was my home
user directory and a botched fc6 update(not enough ram to finish cleanup and
system-config-users wouldn't work) really messed me up and I had to use webmin
to get the right pam modules on the home user directory just to prove it wasn't
my home directory.  Firefox and Thunderbird just don't work as user anymore
permanently.
Comment 5 Michal Jaegermann 2007-01-21 23:59:40 UTC 
In the current state of rawhide firefox does not exhibit the problem.
It takes a long while to start but it starts without SIGSEGV attractions.