Firefox crashes consistently.

zaaron · 2009-08-24 17:37:27

Using the latest version (3.5.2-1), from the main repo. All I do is hit CTRL-D to bookmark a site, then hit the down-arrow button, in the "Edit This Bookmark" pop-up, to "Show all bookmark folders", and it segfaults. Happens every time .

Is it only me?

edit: perhaps I should mention that I'm using the latest KDE 4.3, in case that has some bearing on the issue.

Last edited by zaaron (2009-08-24 18:09:50)

celilo · 2009-08-25 21:44:24

Same problem here using Gnome 2.26.3. Bookmark crashes Firefox. Running 64 bit system.

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l33tunderground · 2009-08-25 21:49:34

Can you be more specific as to how to cause this SEGFAULT? I'm doing what I think you mean, but I can't reproduce it using Firefox 3.5.2-1

celilo · 2009-08-25 21:59:57

l33tunderground wrote:

Can you be more specific as to how to cause this SEGFAULT? I'm doing what I think you mean, but I can't reproduce it using Firefox 3.5.2-1

In my case I click "Bookmarks" -> "bookmark this page" and it crashes...all firefox windows close. I tried disabling all of my extensions, but the error persisted.

I just renamed my profile so that firefox would create a new one, and my problem went away. Either some extension was conflicting, or some user setting, must have been causing my issue. I'll reinstall my extentions and see if one of them breaks things...but it will be a while before I can test it.

Also:
I was using the extensions Openbook 2.0.1.1 and xmarks-3.3.2 I'm guessing that it had something to do with one of those since they are my only bookmark related addons.

Last edited by celilo (2009-08-25 22:03:08)

cb474 · 2009-08-26 08:29:54

I'm using Icecat 3.5.2 and seeing exactly the same problem. All I have to do is hit Ctrl-D and it crashes every time. If I start in safe mode, the bookmark dialogue comes up, but then when I try to select a folder it crashes every time.

I'm also using Openbook 2.0.1.1, but disabling this in itself (including of course it being disabled in safe mode) did not help. I haven't tried creating a new profile yet.

This problem just appeared today after a number of updates, although none included anything directly having to do with firefox/icecat. Could it be the new version of Xorg?

I'm running Arch64 with Gnome 2.26.3.

zaaron · 2009-08-26 12:35:42

Thanks for all the replies -- looks like it's not just me! My original post was a bit confusing, so here's the button I'm talking about (highlighted green):

As soon as I click that button, it crashes. I see others have similar problems; personally, I can still bookmark in the default "Bookmarks Menu", or even select from the drop-down list of locations, but that button is trouble.

edit: moving my .mozilla folder, and restarting firefox, I can then bookmark freely. However, importing my old bookmarks, then bookmarking, causes the same crash. Neat.

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Ranguvar · 2009-08-26 12:38:03

If it's repeatable, make a bug report on Mozilla's tracker. You'll likely need to rebuild Firefox with options=(!strip) to keep the debugging symbols using the ABS, and Mozilla will tell you to create a backtrace with GDB.

fiatguy85 · 2009-08-26 22:23:08

I am also having the exact same issue as zaaron using firefox 3.5.2-1 and Gnome 2.26.3 on x86_64.

graysky · 2009-08-26 22:39:48

Interesting... running x86_64 here as well and I can click that button wo/ crashes... if you run firefox from a shell prompt, go ahead and click that button to cause the error and paste the output here.

celilo · 2009-08-26 22:49:55

graysky wrote:

Interesting... running x86_64 here as well and I can click that button wo/ crashes... if you run firefox from a shell prompt, go ahead and click that button to cause the error and paste the output here.

When I run firefox from a shell, I get an error on startup,

Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

but firefox starts up fine.

On the bookmark action, no aditional output appears in the shell.

*****EDIT*****
Note that the xrand error is a problem with xinerama http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 77#p582377

Last edited by celilo (2009-08-27 01:15:15)

unregistered · 2009-08-27 01:35:44

sometimes when I go to sites like gmail, it crashes too, those with flash, javascript, etc

celilo · 2009-08-27 02:28:30

unregistered wrote:

sometimes when I go to sites like gmail, it crashes too, those with flash, javascript, etc

That is a different issue. There are several existing threads about that issue.

cb474 · 2009-08-27 07:24:23

For me, all I have to do is hit Ctrl-D and it crashes right away. Or if I select "Bookmark This Page" from the drop down menu it crashes immediately.

On the other hand, if I start up in safe mode, I can call up the bookmark pop up menu pictured above (in post #6) and I can hit the button that zaaron has highlighted in green, without any problem. But if I select the Bookmarks Menu drop down menu in the pop up dialogue, then select "choose" so I get the expanded bookmarks window, and after that click on the arrow to expand the Bookmarks Menu hierarchy, then it crashes.

In each of these scenarios it happens every time.

[Oh, edit:] Also, if I start firefox from a terminal I do not get the xlib error celio mentions and when it crashes there are no errors posted in the terminal.

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cb474 · 2009-08-27 10:57:26

I created a bug report on this if people want to add their comments:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512931

kyotocafe · 2009-08-27 18:51:52

It happens the same to me too. As soon as I click the down-arrow button when adding a new bookmark firefox crashes. I am using Kde 4.3

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cb474 · 2009-08-28 00:37:43

Would people please add their comments to my bug report. The Mozilla people are being sticklers about the fact that I'm using Icecat rather than pure Firefox.

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RobbeR49 · 2009-08-28 01:14:15

I've had this problem also in the past few days, drivin' me nuts

stabele · 2009-08-28 09:01:11

I tried plain recompile to be sure

abs
mkdir -p /var/abs/local/firefox
cp /var/abs/extra/firefox/* /var/abs/local/firefox
cd /var/abs/local/firefox
makepkg
pacman -Rd firefox
pacman -U firefox-3.5.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

...but (as to be expected as probably outcome) bug is still here.

Had anybody tried to play with official PKGBUILD?

kyotocafe · 2009-08-28 09:48:56

I am also having other issues aside from the bookmarks one reported above. Whenever I try to save a page or an image, using the save image as, or save page as, options, I get the following error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/contentAreaUtils.js :: getTargetFile :: line 451" data: no]

I will add this info to the bug report.

stabele · 2009-08-28 09:54:38

There is thread about "Save As" issue here.
Fill new bug report (if there is not yet one), threre is no good reason believe that bookmark ans Save As bugs are connected.

kyotocafe · 2009-08-28 09:56:06

Ok, will do, thanks.
I thought it might be connected since both issues started at the same time for me.

stabele · 2009-08-28 10:03:01

Of course they might be connected, but as well it might be just coincidence and filling them in one report makes it harder for developers to sort things out.

kyotocafe · 2009-08-28 22:40:37

It looks like the error is related to sqlite. This is the answer from Mozilla to this bug:

Because you are crashing in SQLite, this is a bug with your distribution's
build of Firefox. You should report it with them.

If you can reproduce this with a build released by Mozilla, please re-open.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512940

kyotocafe · 2009-08-28 23:09:35

I just downgraded sqlite to the previous version, 3.6.16-1, and the issue with the bookmarks was resolved. Thus, this looks indeed like a sqlite3 issue.

cb474 · 2009-08-29 10:02:17

Yeah, Mozilla says that Firefox comes with sqlite as a bundled library, so it's not necessarily tested against every latest new version. If a distro uses the system version of sqlite then bugs can arise (apparently Gentoo is having the same problem).

Downgrading to 3.6.16 solved the problem for me too.

Since Mozilla is saying it doesn't support this problem, does that make this an Arch bug? Should an Arch bug report be filed? And how will we know when it's safe to upgrade sqlite?

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