Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1461883
Firefox 52 crashes with segmentation fault unless --sync option is provided
Last modified: 2017-12-06 06:36:11 EST
Description of problem: Firefox 52 32-bit crashes repeatably on a number of web pages (including about:support). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 52.1 and 52.2, i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Firefox 52 from repository 2. Open about:support Actual results: Firefox closes. When started from a terminal, a segmentation fault is reported. Expected results: Firefox should be able to open it's own support page without issues. Additional info: Running firefox from the command line with the --sync option appears to prevent this crash (at least on the about:support page), indicating the problem lies somewhere with the graphics/drawing.
The following webpage causes the tab's content process on 52.2 to crash, even with the --sync option, though the browser survives: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/5.4
Created attachment 1294494 [details] GDB log with crash (no --sync option) Steps taken to produce the log: 1. Run gdb /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2. In gdb, type "run" 3. Open a new tab and nagivate to about:support. This causes the segmentation fault. 4. In gdb, type "backtrace" 5. Finally, type "kill" and then exit gdb
Thanks. #9 0x49d0cfe9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #10 0x49d0d169 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 The report is missing debug info from the /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 library. Please install missing debuginfos (run "debuginfo-install firefox" as root or install that by hand) and attach the backtrace again.
Created attachment 1295733 [details] New GDB log with extra debuginfos Same process to produce as previous log, but with gdk debuginfos installed.
The problem still exists with Firefox 52.3.
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