Description of problem: Firefox seg faults on certain URLs Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Visit http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc.php Steps to Reproduce: 1. Bring up FF and visit http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc.php 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: This also fails on a RHELv4.6 system with only FF updated from the beta channel.
Created attachment 310097 [details] Core file from segfault
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please get your system to some released state (RHEL4.6 or 4.7), and then install -debuginfo rpm for firefox (see http://people.redhat.com/duffy/debuginfo/index-js.html for the way how to get -debuginfo rpms). Then run firefox with a parameter -g. That will start firefox running inside of gdb debugger. Then use command run and do whatever you did to make firefox crash. When it happens, you should go back to the gdb and run (gdb) thread apply all backtrace This produces usually many screens of the text. Copy all of them into a text editor and attach the file to the bug as an uncompressed attachment. Please, include in the comment of this bug also output of the command rpm -qa \*firefox\* \*plug\* \*xulrun\* \*flash\* We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
I went to the URL http://people.redhat.com/duffy/debuginfo/index-js.html and was unable to find any debuginfo rpm's for firefox-3.0-0.beta5.3.el4. Please point me to the correct place to pick this up.
OK, so the probably best way would be to wait for the final release of fedora-3.0-1 which will happen in next few days, then you will have -debuginfo on ftp.redhat.com and everything will me less complicated. Please, try it when it will be available, and let us know. In meantime, you can also try upstream binary from http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=linux&lang=en-US Does it break for you as well? Thank you for your cooperation.
If I use the Mozilla released FF 3.0 binary with the evolution28 libpangocairo it will crash on startup. (I added /usr/evolution28/lib to ldconfig's path). If I use libpangocairo from frysk it will fail while loading a page with the error: /usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/firefox/libxul.so: undefined symbol: FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden
firefox-3.0-1.el4 (final) should be released in next 4.7 beta snapshot 5, please check it after release.
It seems as if the latest update of freetype has fixed the crash. However, ff3 (released version 3.0) will crash with a segfault on Quit. I moved my .mozilla/firefox directory out of the way and created a new one and even after adding in all the themes and extensions it no longer crashes on quit. So, the question is... Do you want to continue looking into this or close it as an anomaly?
If this is really the corruption of ~/.mozilla directory problem, than I am afraid we will give up on this. Closing as NOTABUG (anymore).