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Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Firefox keeps crashing

Firefox keeps crashing on a regular basis for no apparent reason (no paricular web site, no particular time periodicity).  I'm no developer and my linux skills are still 'newbie', however, I do know how to click on 'save' when the BugReport dialog box comes up.  I've saved 5 such bug reports from lastnight's PC session (a little over 1 hour's computing time).   They all appear to be the same thing (note: the bugreport.txt files are quite lengthy (450KB) and won't upload to pastebin.ca so I've only posted the header here which, to a layman like me, appears to encapsulate the problem):

System: Linux 2.6.26-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 10 12:29:20 UTC 2008 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10402000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Overglossed
Icon Theme: oxy-gnome

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

----------- .xsession-errors (4312482 sec old) ---------------------
** (nautilus:5480): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
 * Detected Session: gnome
 * Searching for installed applications...
compiz (core) - Error: no 'text' plugin with ABI version '20080421' loaded
compiz (shift) - Warn: No compatible text plugin loaded.
(nautilus:7873): Liboobs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
seahorse nautilus module initialized
(nautilus:7873): nautilus-extension-gnome-mount-WARNING **: Cannot connect to system bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound : Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such
(nautilus:7873): nautilus-extension-gnome-mount-WARNING **: Could not initialize hal context
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Am I the only one having this problem?

Kind regards

rooloo

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 218

Re: Firefox keeps crashing

so I've only posted the header here which, to a layman like me, appears to encapsulate the problem

well first off, normal logs work like we write. left to right and top to bottom. So any sort of information relevant to a crash would be at the TAIL of a log, not the header.

did ff work before some update, or did you update ff and notice the issue? when and how did this problem start?

Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Re: Firefox keeps crashing

I don't think it's FF as I experience the same problem with Epiphany.  I've noticed that the frequency of crashes is less when I turn off CompizFusion and stick with Metacity, but I still get crashes (just not as often).  I'm thinking it has something to do with X11.  I don't experience this problem on openSuSE 11 or Ubuntu 8.04 so it would appear to be Arch specific.

rooloo

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 218

Re: Firefox keeps crashing

run ff from a terminal and when it crashes, put that on paste bin. Though it sounds like a seg fault. Hard to pinpoint the problem, but how many plugins are you using?

Shagbag

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Registered: 2006-10-25

Posts: 259

Re: Firefox keeps crashing

Here's a screenie of the terminal output:

I'm running the following add-ins:

Personas
NoScript
Chatzilla
BetterYouTube
BetterGMail

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 9,939

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Re: Firefox keeps crashing

Go to ~/.mozilla/firefox/????????.default/extensions and see what extension is installed in with that ID given on the terminal.  Look in install.rdf in each folder (one folder might even have that name).  Start firefox in safe mode and disable that extension.

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