Firefox keeps arbitrarily crashing

sam34567 · 2017-05-04 15:48:47

This has been happening for a while. Reinstalling hasn't helped. I can't also say what triggered the problem.
At first I thought it was because of some addons, as after the crash there is a report crash window and in there there is a "details" button and on looking up the details, the first thing visible was with the name of some addons. But uninstalling the addons didn't help.

The following is from journalctl -xe:

May 04 20:50:23 sameer systemd-coredump[28627]: Process 28597 (plugin-containe) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                
                                                Stack trace of thread 28599:
                                                #0  0x0000559d1bef2da1 _Z14mozalloc_abortPKc (plugin-container)
                                                #1  0x00007f598a04cf08 NS_DebugBreak (libxul.so)
                                                #2  0x00007f598a2b9c21 _ZN7mozilla3ipc14MessageChannel22OnChannelErrorFromLinkEv (libxul.so)
                                                #3  0x00007f598a2b9caf _ZN7mozilla3ipc11ProcessLink14OnChannelErrorEv (libxul.so)
                                                #4  0x00007f5985084a12 event_base_loop (libevent-2.0.so.5)
                                                #5  0x00007f598a29f2a1 _ZN4base19MessagePumpLibevent3RunEPNS_11MessagePump8DelegateE (libxul.so)
                                                #6  0x00007f598a2a0f3e _ZN11MessageLoop3RunEv (libxul.so)
                                                #7  0x00007f598a2a91da _ZN4base6Thread10ThreadMainEv (libxul.so)
                                                #8  0x00007f598a2a7335 _ZL10ThreadFuncPv (libxul.so)
                                                #9  0x00007f598d8732e7 start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
                                                #10 0x00007f59886eb54f __clone (libc.so.6)
                                                
                                                Stack trace of thread 28597:
                                                #0  0x00007f59886e167d poll (libc.so.6)
                                                #1  0x00007f5983bdb7a6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                                #2  0x00007f5983bdb8bc g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                                #3  0x00007f598a29d66c _ZN4base16MessagePumpForUI17RunWithDispatcherEPNS_11MessagePump8DelegateE
                                                #4  0x00007f598a2a0f3e _ZN11MessageLoop3RunEv (libxul.so)
                                                #5  0x00007f598b9abb55 XRE_InitChildProcess (libxul.so)
                                                #6  0x0000559d1bef2cf7 _Z20content_process_mainiPPc (plugin-container)
                                                #7  0x00007f598861f511 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
                                                #8  0x0000559d1bef27ba _start (plugin-container)

seth · 2017-05-04 15:58:38

No addon, plugin - check "about:plugins"
Also, which FF ist that (pacman -Qi firefox)? Afaiu, npapi is done?

Durden · 2017-05-04 17:23:56

If you rename your mozilla profile and move it, then create a new one does it continue?

sam34567 · 2017-05-04 21:42:48

seth wrote:

No addon, plugin - check "about:plugins"
Also, which FF ist that (pacman -Qi firefox)? Afaiu, npapi is done?

about:plugin shows

Durden wrote:

If you rename your mozilla profile and move it, then create a new one does it continue?

I don't know. It is arbitrary. Sometimes itdoesn't happen for a couple of days. Sometimes it happens within a couple of minutes. I'll try and let you know.

seth · 2017-05-04 22:19:37

There're only two contenders.
Historically, it's clear which one will be the culprit, but you could disable them individually to see which one does not segfault the plugin container.

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#1 2017-05-04 15:48:47

Firefox keeps arbitrarily crashing

#2 2017-05-04 15:58:38

Re: Firefox keeps arbitrarily crashing

#3 2017-05-04 17:23:56

Re: Firefox keeps arbitrarily crashing

#4 2017-05-04 21:42:48

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#5 2017-05-04 22:19:37

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