Description of problem: firefox seg faults and drops core on startup Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox 1.0 and fedora core 3 with no updates How reproducible: 1. install an abbreviated fc3 o xfce o xdm o no kde, no gnome, no graphics, just enough to have a working system Actual results: trace from core file reveals we get to nsProfileLock's FatalSignalHandler Looks like JS_dtostr in libmozjs.so is the culprit also js_NumberToString (looks the same) Expected results: firefox starts Additional info: I did a lot of searching and subscribed to fedora-devel. There seems to be a problem with gcc search google for prdtoa.c and you'll see what I mean. I even tried to build firefox (AVIARY branch) but ran into the same problem but it cropped up in shlibsign. I installed FC3 twice on a fresh disk same result both times
What does "rpm -q firefox" say?
I should have said that comes with FC3, I thought it was 1 but it's firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.20 Also included the anaconda kickstart file: # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. install cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us xconfig --card "ATI Rage 128" --videoram 32768 --hsync 30-96 --vsync 50-140 --resolution 800x600 --depth 16 network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted firewall --enabled selinux --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone America/Tijuana bootloader --location=mbr # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work #clearpart --linux #part / --fstype "ext3" --onpart hda1 #part swap --noformat --onpart hda2 %packages @ editors @ xemacs @ system-tools @ dialup @ authoring-and-publishing @ xfce-desktop @ base-x @ printing @ development-tools -python-ldap -valgrind -psgml -perl-XML-LibXML -vim-enhanced -gdm -gcc-java -authconfig-gtk -xorg-x11-twm -ltrace -rhn-applet -up2date-gnome -zsh -cscope -emacs-leim -elfutils -usermode-gtk -switchdesk -oprofile -diffstat -freeglut -system-config-network -system-config-printer-gui -doxygen -xterm -system-config-services -bluez-pin kernel -system-config-display -gcc-g77 -indent -firstboot -perl-XML-Dumper -memprof sysstat -openssh-askpass-gnome -perl-LDAP -ctags -cvs -perl-XML-Parser -rcs -screen -perl-XML-NamespaceSupport nmap-frontend -xdelta -emacspeak tsclient -rhgb -splint -perl-Crypt-SSLeay -perl-XML-Grove e2fsprogs -perl-XML-LibXML-Common vnc -system-config-date -perl-XML-SAX -perl-XML-Twig grub -valgrind-callgrind -open mrtg -openldap-clients -linuxwacom -system-config-packages -cdecl -system-config-users -system-logviewer -emacs -synaptics -system-config-soundcard -perl-XML-Encoding %post
To 'ye who reads this here message.....shall I be givin' up all hope on this? No doubt there are more important bugs. I have abandoned all hope. Installing new firefox from mozilla.org gives me same problem.
I think I've heard reports that the i386 version works. Have you tried that? Unfortunately, I won't be able to get to look at this for a while, but it is on the list of bugs I have flagged to fix for FC4.
Dunno where to find i386 version?? I only find this http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/linux-i686/en-US/
Between comment #2 and the fact that this bug is filed against athlon not x86_64, I think Richard Hubbell already tried the i386 version and still hit this problem. (I haven't seen this problem however.)
To Barry K. Nathan, how did you try to repro? Or are you just saying "I don't have this problem, haven't ever seen this problem from anyone" ?
I'm saying whenver I've installed FC3, firefox has Just Worked(tm). I've never seen this crash. I don't think I've tried installing X and Firefox on a minimal install and testing that setup, however. (It's possible that I did that once and that it also worked for me, but I don't remember for sure, so I need to try again at some point. "some point" definitely won't be today or tomorrow, though.)
I suppose I've had stranger hardware problems, but this ranks right up there. Turns out my cpu was bad. Don't understand anything more about it. I could do most everything on the computer. Exceptions were running any browser. firefox, mozilla, konqueor, opera. All a no go. The GTK color picker would crash. I had problems with gpg, but only in some versions. I finally realized it was a cpu problem after running seti. It behaved very strangely and I got OVERFLOW errors. I could compile linux kernels with no apparent problems either. All is a go after replacing the athlon with a duron. I can't figure out how to retire this so I'll leave that up to you.
It should be closed as "NOTABUG". (I'm not the bug reporter, nor am I a Red Hat employee, so I can't do that myself.)
closing NOTABUG as per comment #10.