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Ensisong01

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Registered: 2014-08-31

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Problem starting applications (Core Dumped)

After performing a system upgrade, I have had some problems starting a number of programs including firefox, chromium, thunderbird and more. In an attempt to debug the problem myself I resorted to this Step-by-Step guide, however I'm not sure how to proceed from there. Below are some of the results i received while doing some testing.

-Firefox
Error message when run in terminal
Terminal Error Message
Terminal Error Message
gdb dump (pastebin)

-Thunderbird
Error message when run in terminal
Terminal Error Message
gdb dump (pastebin)

-Arora
Terminal Error Message

-Calibre
Terminal Error Message

Last edited by Ensisong01 (2014-09-02 19:48:36)

jasonwryan

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Re: Problem starting applications (Core Dumped)

Please also share your pacman log (for the recent update: and don't use pastebin, it is a mess, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … in_clients )

Not a Laptop issue, moving to Apps & DEs...

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twelveeighty

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Re: Problem starting applications (Core Dumped)

Here's a couple of things to try to get some more information of what may be failing: run firefox from a terminal and see if there is any information dumped to the terminal. Also check your system logs (journalctl, dmesg) to see if there are services not started or driver issues. Also, if I Google that first error "g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed", there definitely some hits regarding Firefox issues. Check if https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671 is similar to your problem. Even though that bug is marked "fixed", there could still be hints in the comments on what may be happening in your case.

89c51

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Registered: 2012-06-05

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Re: Problem starting applications (Core Dumped)

Same problem here. Appeared some days (???) ago.

Every time i start FF and TB i get:

Sep 02 17:06:27 mainland kernel: traps: firefox[1211] general protection ip:7eff184dd36f sp:7fff34127910 error:0 in r600_dri.so[7eff181d0000+4f3000]
Sep 02 17:06:32 mainland systemd-coredump[1223]: Process 1211 (firefox) of user 1000 dumped core.
Sep 02 17:07:00 mainland kernel: traps: thunderbird[1274] general protection ip:7eff4fddd36f sp:7fff7c2b5010 error:0 in r600_dri.so[7eff4fad0000+4f3000]
Sep 02 17:07:04 mainland systemd-coredump[1278]: Process 1274 (thunderbird) of user 1000 dumped core.

even though both apps run just fine.

Ensisong01

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Registered: 2014-08-31

Posts: 2

Re: Problem starting applications (Core Dumped)

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Thank you, both for moving this and also for the suggestion. And as suggested I have changed the site that i used to share my code.

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I had looked into that first error earlier, or more specifically that particular site. However if you scroll to the bottom you'll see that that error by itself should not be causing the program to crash.

In addition to that this problem does not seem to be limited to only application which leads me to suspect that a dependency has somehow been broken.

Note: Initial Message has been edited.