Bug 447386 - firefox crashes repeatedly in js_Invoke
Summary: firefox crashes repeatedly in js_Invoke
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-19 19:00 UTC by Bryan O'Sullivan
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-07-18 13:52:45 UTC
Type: ---
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Backtrace, courtesy of gdb (10.80 KB, text/plain)
2008-05-19 19:02 UTC, Bryan O'Sullivan
no flags Details

Description Bryan O'Sullivan 2008-05-19 19:00:32 UTC
Description of problem:

The version of firefox bundled with Fedora 9 is extremely unstable, and crashes
every few minutes for me as follows:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
js_Invoke (cx=0x7f67a518a480, argc=0, vp=0x7f67a3820310, flags=2)
    at jsinterp.c:1096

It can take a little while to provoke this crash, but to date my longest
browsing session has lasted perhaps 15 minutes.

I know that in some sense this isn't your fault because you didn't develop the
Firefox beta, but really, whoever decided to bundle such a crappy codebase with
a major distro upgrade needs some help making wiser decisions.  Packaging a
useless version of the single most important desktop app was the sort of
decision one might easily anticipate leading to, shall we say, less than
complete user satisfaction.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64
xulrunner-1.9-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to a web site that uses Javascript. I'm trying to buy computer parts
at http://www.centralcomputer.com/ for example.
2. Click around to different web pages for a few minutes.
3. Crash!
  
Actual results:

An unusable web browser.

Expected results:

A stable web browser.

Additional info:

I have a few Firefox addons installed:

Delicious Bookmarks
Firebug
Greasemonkey
YSlow

Comment 1 Bryan O'Sullivan 2008-05-19 19:02:15 UTC
Created attachment 305997 [details]
Backtrace, courtesy of gdb

I've attached the backtrace that seems to occur most frequently.

Comment 2 Bryan O'Sullivan 2008-05-19 19:39:15 UTC
There are several other crashes in Javascript-related code. I can keep piling
them up here, if they might seem useful.

Comment 3 Balaji G 2008-06-22 09:33:28 UTC
Changing status to ASSIGNED

Cheers,
Balaji

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2008-06-23 16:17:22 UTC
Are you able to reproduce this bug while running firefox with -safe-mode parameter?

Comment 5 Bryan O'Sullivan 2008-06-23 18:06:08 UTC
I haven't been able to reproduce the problem since I upgraded to FF3 final.

Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2008-07-18 13:52:45 UTC
Thanks for the info, closing.


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