firefox crashes silently.

nick.stumpos · 2008-12-18 18:55:30

first of all hi all, first time post here, but i got a problem I cant seem to solve on my own. every once in a while, at no specific time or action that i can determine. firefox seems to crash silently. by that i mean nothing is output to console. It just appears to close.
echo $? says it returned a 1, but thats about all I can tell.
openjava6 and flash10 64 are installed, but dont seem to be being utilized during a crash.
plugins installed are
adblock plus v1.0
download status bar v .9.6.3
forecastfox .9.7.7
NoScript v 1.8.7.6
personas 1.0a6
Web developer 1.1.6
firefox is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008112211 GranParadiso/3.0.4
any ideas how i can troubleshoot this. is there a verbose mode for firefox I can set, or does it log to anywhere? google doesnt seem to know where the logs are if it does. thanks in advance
~nick

Procyon · 2008-12-18 19:14:39

Flash can cause crashes. See if the problem goes away with Flashblock addon.

nick.stumpos · 2008-12-18 19:25:56

Ill give it a try, although im fairly sure noscript is blocking flash now, and as i said flash content doesn't seem to be a requirement for a crash, as it crashed while searching these forums for a solution. wont hurt to give it a try though
[UPDATE]
still crashed with the noflash plugin
so i ran with strace and doesnt tell much that i can decifer but it is definitely segfaulting

[nickisgod1@nick ~]$ strace -f firefox 2>&1 | tee strace.out
...
[nickisgod1@nick ~]$ tail -n 40 strace.out
[pid 16226] gettimeofday({1229612614, 775948}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16226] gettimeofday({1229612614, 776005}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16226] gettimeofday({1229612614, 776031}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16228] <... futex resumed> ) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
[pid 16228] gettimeofday({1229612614, 782965}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16228] futex(0x1449f20, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
[pid 16228] write(22, "\372"..., 1) = 1
[pid 16228] gettimeofday({1229612614, 783069}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16228] gettimeofday({1229612614, 783093}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16228] clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1229612614, 783117626}) = 0
[pid 16228] futex(0x1449cec, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 22823, {0, 24975374}) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
[pid 16228] gettimeofday({1229612614, 808449}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16228] futex(0x1449f20, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0
[pid 16228] gettimeofday({1229612614, 808659}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16228] gettimeofday({1229612614, 808754}, NULL) = 0
[pid 16228] clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1229612614, 808886551}) = 0
[pid 16228] futex(0x1449cec, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 22825, {0, 906867449} <unfinished ...>
[pid 16226] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
[pid 16226] unlink("/home/nickisgod1/.mozilla/firefox/73digiw7.default/lock") = 0
[pid 16226] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
[pid 16226] writev(3, [{"\33\7\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8}], 1) = 8
[pid 16226] read(3, 0x138e6f4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
[pid 16226] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
[pid 16226] writev(3, [{" \7\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8}], 1) = 8
[pid 16226] read(3, 0x138e6f4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
[pid 16226] select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [3])
[pid 16226] writev(3, [{"%\7\1\0+\7\1\0"..., 8}], 1) = 8
[pid 16226] select(4, [3], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3])
[pid 16226] read(3, "\1\2c.\0\0\0\0o\0@\2\0\0\0\0\260s\245\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 32
[pid 16226] read(3, 0x138e6f4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
[pid 16226] access("/bin/gdb", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 16226] access("/usr/bin/gdb", X_OK) = 0
[pid 16226] getuid() = 1000
[pid 16226] stat("/usr/bin/gdb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=3674896, ...}) = 0
[pid 16226] readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox"..., 255) = 28
[pid 16226] open("/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox", O_RDONLY) = 20
[pid 16226] lseek(20, 0, SEEK_END) = 36496
[pid 16226] mmap(NULL, 36496, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 20, 0) = 0x7f9296387000
[pid 16226] munmap(0x7f9296387000, 36496) = 0
[pid 16226] exit_group(1) = ?

Last edited by nick.stumpos (2008-12-18 20:10:45)

nick.stumpos · 2008-12-18 21:03:53

sorry to double post, but it seemed to make more sense.
I'm thinking I should probably file a bug report. not sure if i should file here, or should it be filled upstream.
looks like an xulrunner problem, is the arch package altered or straight from mozilla. here is the gdb output if anyone has any suggestion id appreciate it as this is getting somewhat annoying

[Thread 0x7f92cea36950 (LWP 21287) exited]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
[Switching to Thread 0x7f92e6568700 (LWP 21267)]
0x0000000000000050 in ?? ()
(gdb) i r
rax 0x530b6a0 87078560
rbx 0x74ea870 122595440
rcx 0x7589998 123247000
rdx 0x51 81
rsi 0x4336a10 70478352
rdi 0x4336a10 70478352
rbp 0x7e0 0x7e0
rsp 0x7fffee57f338 0x7fffee57f338
r8 0x6daec10 115010576
r9 0x1 1
r10 0x39e93d0 60724176
r11 0x50 80
r12 0xfc 252
r13 0x7f92e63ca010 140268904685584
r14 0x625 1573
r15 0x188b5c0 25736640
rip 0x50 0x50
eflags 0x10246 [ PF ZF IF RF ]
cs 0x33 51
ss 0x2b 43
ds 0x0 0
es 0x0 0
fs 0x0 0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
gs 0x0 0
fctrl 0x37f 895
fstat 0x20 32
ftag 0xffff 65535
fiseg 0x0 0
fioff 0x0 0
foseg 0x0 0
fooff 0x0 0
fop 0x0 0
mxcsr 0x1fa3 [ IE DE PE IM DM ZM OM UM PM ]
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000000050 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007f92e3e61542 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#2 0x00007f92e4192fae in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#3 0x00007f92e4193004 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#4 0x00007f92e3a603af in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#5 0x00007f92e4f67e9a in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libmozjs.so
#6 0x00007f92e3a5f7bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#7 0x00007f92e4193bfa in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#8 0x00007f92e3de3e45 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#9 0x00007f92e3de3efc in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#10 0x00007f92e3de41ce in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#11 0x00007f92e4168832 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#12 0x00007f92e4168b16 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#13 0x00007f92e3d1df36 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#14 0x00007f92e418c3c2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#15 0x00007f92e418c4c2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#16 0x00007f92e418a5ae in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#17 0x00007f92e4160206 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#18 0x00007f92e40e4ac5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#19 0x00007f92e3fc7b41 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#20 0x00007f92e3a544ec in XRE_main () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.4/libxul.so
#21 0x0000000000401540 in ?? ()
#22 0x00007f92e5472546 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#23 0x0000000000401049 in ?? ()
#24 0x00007fffee588b78 in ?? ()
#25 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#26 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#27 0x00007fffee58a901 in ?? ()
#28 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.
[Thread 0x7f92d0d40950 (LWP 21282) exited]
Program exited with code 01.

Last edited by nick.stumpos (2008-12-18 21:10:43)

qlus · 2008-12-20 12:49:03

Close firefox and create new profile:
firefox -P
and than check firefox behaviour on a new clean profile.

nielsb · 2008-12-20 14:27:00

qlus wrote:

Close firefox and create new profile:
firefox -P
and than check firefox behaviour on a new clean profile.

I have the same problem on a completely virgin arch 64 install. This behavior has been for a couple of months now. I.e.; I have not Flash, I do have IcedTea6 java, but that's it.

Niels

nick.stumpos · 2008-12-20 17:43:44

I believe I nailed down the source of my problems to a bug in the personas plugin. I updated to the latest dev version(10.b1), and havent experience the issue since. [fingers crossed]. although im hesitant to mark is solved until i get a couple days stability.

nielsb · 2008-12-21 09:00:42

nick.stumpos wrote:

I believe I nailed down the source of my problems to a bug in the personas plugin. I updated to the latest dev version(10.b1), and havent experience the issue since. [fingers crossed]. although im hesitant to mark is solved until i get a couple days stability.

I hope the plugin fix solved your problem - I do however not have that plugin, and I still experience the crashes.

Niels

intellitech · 2009-03-27 13:42:17

I'm also having problems. I tried creating a new profile, and now firefox won't start up at all (or it's crashing silently), even with the -P or -ProfileManager (or even -safe-mode).

How does one completely reset firefox's configuration? I tried deleting ~/.mozilla and that didn't help at all.

Arch Linux

#1 2008-12-18 18:55:30

firefox crashes silently.

#2 2008-12-18 19:14:39

Re: firefox crashes silently.

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