Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80375
Mozilla will segfault without giving any hint what is wrong.
Last modified: 2008-01-17 12:49:42 EST
Description of problem: After upgrade from RedHat 8.0 to RedHat 8.0.92 I can not start Mozilla. It will not bring up the Mozilla window and some time later there is message about "Segmentation fault": [IS@haskaa IS]$ mozilla Segmentation fault [IS@haskaa IS]$ How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: Upgrade from Red Hat 8.0 to RedHat Public Beta Phoebe. Actual results: Mozilla will not start up anymore! Expected results: Mozilla happily running... Additional info: [IS@haskaa IS]$ rpm -qa|grep mozilla mozilla-devel-1.2.1-3 mozilla-mail-1.2.1-3 mozilla-1.2.1-3 mozilla-nss-1.2.1-3 mozilla-js-debugger-1.2.1-3 mozilla-dom-inspector-1.2.1-3 mozilla-nspr-devel-1.2.1-3 mozilla-psm-1.2.1-3 mozilla-nspr-1.2.1-3 mozilla-chat-1.2.1-3 mozilla-nss-devel-1.2.1-3 [IS@haskaa IS]$ (Deletion of .mozilla directory did not help.) How to fix the issue?
Does this happen with a newly created user with default mozilla preferences?
Yes.
I "fixed" the issue by downloading Mozilla & Galeon by hand and reinstalling these again. [root@haskaa galeon]# ls -la total 18776 drwxrwxr-x 2 IS IS 4096 Dec 23 23:58 . drwxrwxr-x 4 IS IS 4096 Dec 23 23:58 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 IS IS 2522440 Dec 23 23:58 galeon-1.2.7-0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 9258038 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 112915 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-chat-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 3192103 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-devel-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 224638 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-dom-inspector-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 235429 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-js-debugger-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 1903379 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-mail-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 94561 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-nspr-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 174450 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-nspr-devel-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 630340 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-nss-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 470142 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-nss-devel-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 IS IS 319013 Dec 23 23:58 mozilla-psm-1.2.1-3.i386.rpm [root@haskaa galeon]# rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm Unfortunately this is a temporary solution as when Galeon "goes nuts" (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80376), it will bring down Mozilla with itself and to get Mozilla working again it has to be "rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm"'d again.
I have something similiar. Mozilla works fine on a fresh Phoebe install. But if I use kernel 2.4.21pre1 (from www.kernel.org, works fine on RH 8.0), Mozilla dies, but when I look at "top" there are numerous mozilla-bin, regxpcom, regchrome processess running. Is there something I should configure on the kernel build? If you need more info, let me know. I'm stumped. Thanks! Tony
As a followup, I installed the glibc-2.3.1-21.i386.rpm (rpm --force), and Mozilla fires up fine with the 2.4.21pre1 from kernel.org. Thanks! Tony
In my case, I have installed Phoebe from scratch. Upon installing Sun's JRE (build 1.4.1-b21), and copying the plugin to ~/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins, mozila will consistently abend whenever I go to http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.4.1/demos/applets.html, and click on any of the applet links in that page.
I have reproduced this often. I am teaching a high school Java programming class. The students are using Linux thin clients (running Phoebe). Mozilla crashes often when they visit Java applets. This may indicate a Java problem, however they found that crashes do not occur when all letters within the applet tag are changed from lowercase to uppercase. I need to test this more to confirm.
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.