Firefox: Segmentation Fault Line 131

tomfitzyuk · 2006-03-05 19:08:19

Hey,

I'm able to open Firefox but when I try to load a webpage it crashes:

/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:   7570 Segmentation Faults         "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I'm able to run it fine as the root user.
It crashes even after I moved my .firefox and .mozilla directories.
It doesn't worked for newly-created users.
It doesn't work after being redownloaded and reinstalled.
Having ran memtest86+ my RAM seems fine.

Does anybody have any ideas as to what I can do?

Thanks
Tom

Snowman · 2006-03-05 22:57:38

Is your system up-to-date?

tomfitzyuk · 2006-03-07 12:04:02

Snowman wrote:

Is your system up-to-date?

Yes, all my packages are fully up-to-date using the current, extra and community repositories.

kth5 · 2006-03-08 18:27:06

Snowman wrote:

Is your system up-to-date?

i think this question should be picked up for the posting-rules.

in any case, it happened to me before. i am not quite sure, wether it was a gtk2 - and deps - related issue or not. questions questions i would like to ask:

* is ~/.mozilla read- and writable for your user?
* did you compile firefox by hand?
* do you run firefox with sudo?

tomfitzyuk · 2006-03-09 18:47:38

* is ~/.mozilla read- and writable for your user?

Yes. So are all files within that directory.

* did you compile firefox by hand?

Nope. Just:

pacman -S mozilla-firefox

* do you run firefox with sudo?

No, as my normal users I just run firefox. When I tried using Firefox as the root user (for which it did work) I was logged as root through the terminal (aterm).

Ethilien · 2006-03-10 01:15:49

How are your usergroups set up? If it works as root, it probably has something to do with permissions...

You could also try downloading epiphany and running it, to see if its a problem with firefox or with mozilla-common.

n3olynx · 2006-04-25 20:22:11

Has this issue been solved? I just recently started getting this problem and don't know how to solve.

/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.5.0.2/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 4583 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I have found that this page occurs when loading hotmail.com...i'll try to find other sites that have the same problem to see what is common.

n3olynx · 2006-04-26 00:37:57

Just got home and reinstalled firefox and seems to have fixed the problem.

tomfitzyuk · 2006-05-29 19:47:10

Hey,

Over a month later and I still haven't solved this problem (I've been using Opera).

Anyway, I made a breakthrough just when Firefox 1.0.7 (I found an old .pkg.tar.gz package for this on a host that stores all packages) actually worked on my machine.

I had to uninstall xulrunner since it was a conflicting file which meant I had to uninstall gecko too.

However it worked, I thought maybe after uninstalling a bunch of packages 1.5 would now work but after reinstalling that it crashed again, so back to 1.0.7.

So does anybody know a solution for this? I'm unable to install some extentions I want because they're not compatible with 1.0.*

Tom

Snowman · 2006-05-29 19:51:58

Try running firefox without any extensions and with the default theme. Maybe you are using a buggy extension that seg faults firefox.

tomfitzyuk · 2006-05-29 19:57:53

Tried it.

I've tried running it after deleting ~/.mozilla and it still crashed.

I've tried running it as a newly-created user and it still crashed.

Since it works for root I think it's either a permissions problem or firefox is accessing something in a file where all users load from, such as /usr/share/....... but I couldn't find anything when I checked.

alexpnx · 2006-07-23 20:48:04

ok this is getting ridiculous... one problem after the other! now i'm getting this error too and it's got something to do with the $MOZ_PROGRAM variable in run_mozilla.sh. NVU doesn't run either and gives out a seg fault in run_mozilla.sh line 159 where the same $MOZ_PROGRAM variable is referenced.
Reinstalling didn't help either

Update: it seems that xfce4, shared-mime-info or perl-uri (which are xfce4 deps) has something to do with this. I removed all of the above and firefox is working again...

newpers · 2006-08-16 05:00:08

this problem still occurs, and i think that solution was a coincedence.

newpers · 2006-08-16 05:29:27

Since this is a known issue that has been going on for a few months, I have decided to create a ticket for it: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5228

Sigi · 2006-08-22 07:44:49

This error persists.
I haven't got a problem on my system, but I'm currently building a LiveCD using the great larch tools. Every program works as it should, except firefox. -> Segfault at line 131 in run-mozilla.sh.

I tried to remove the .mozilla-folder, the fonts, the dri section in xorg.conf - nothing helped. Its a basic firefox installation without and plugins, etc.

Has this error already been solved for you? Any ideas how I could get rid of this?

Cheers Sigi

PS: Sorry for the crosspost, I already asked here, without a reply so far. Please post your answer here..

tomfitzyuk · 2006-08-22 23:04:23

This only solved itself when I reinstalled Arch... I still have no idea why it happened (and I did the same things as you: removing .mozilla, getting rid of plugins, etc.). Also, I was able to run it as root fine... weird.

marties · 2006-09-30 09:41:31

Hello,

same problem here with this damn segfault, my fresh Arch install is about 4days and firefox decided to crash this morning.
I solved the problem by installing swiftfox which is an optimized version of Firefox, the interesting things is that it uses the plugins and bookmarks from the firefox directory.

marties · 2006-09-30 16:26:38

Helllo again,

even with swiftfox it crashes again, i'm now using firefox in safe mode
epiphany crashes with this error :

epiphany: symbol lookup error: epiphany: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsCOMPtr_base25a
ssign_from_qi_with_errorERK25nsQueryInterfaceWithErrorRk4nsID

Any advice ?

pobstil · 2006-11-04 05:52:45

Hey just out of curiosity, is everyone who's getting these crashes running an amd system?

It's just a theory as I have no idea how to prove it, but I think I may have solved these errors.
I used to get them frequently, I have no idea why exactly they happen, but when I figured out that amd systems have to have the ram and cpu bus speed the same else they can have problems, I changed it of course, and I have no had any errors since..

It's just an idea, I don't know if it's really the solution, but it seems to have worked for me.

Let me know if it worked for anyone else.

Gustavo · 2006-11-04 07:49:16

Well, I have an AMD system and both ff and swiftfox are crashing a lot lately.

pobstil · 2006-11-04 11:54:06

try changing the ram speed to match your cpu's bus speed, thats what fixed it for me.

bneate · 2006-11-04 19:16:11

I'm having the same crash on line 131 error with firefox 2.0. I think that it might have something to do with flash since it only seems to happen when there is a website loaded that is using flash.

cthulhufhtagn · 2006-11-05 19:22:03

Running Firefox 2.0 from repo with no extensions and no themes. Running Flash 9.0 beta and last JRE from Sun -everything from the repo. It crashes when entering webpages with Java Applets, such as:

http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.4/dem … mple1.html

Works fine for Flash sites such as Youtube.

I can provide an strace if you happen to need it.
________________________________

In relation with the already filled bug, this has been happening both with and without MS TTF fonts.

pobstil · 2006-11-05 21:36:23

I used to get the crashes all the time, not just with firefox too, but I don't anymore at all. I haven't had any crashes, with any programs since I changed the speed of my ram to match the system fsb. AMD systems have to have the ram matching the fsb speed or it'll have problems, like the one we're discussing here.
I don't know if it'll work for you, but it's worth the try, it worked for me.

cthulhufhtagn · 2006-11-05 21:56:47

pobstil wrote:

I used to get the crashes all the time, not just with firefox too, but I don't anymore at all. I haven't had any crashes, with any programs since I changed the speed of my ram to match the system fsb. AMD systems have to have the ram matching the fsb speed or it'll have problems, like the one we're discussing here.
I don't know if it'll work for you, but it's worth the try, it worked for me.

That's ok for AMD users, but I neither use AMD nor have my FSB overclocked, so the bug or misconfiguration is still there...

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