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theodoreward

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Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 20

After small update, Firefox seg-faulting

Firefox was working fine, I did an update and suddenly began getting seg-faults. Rebooting didn't change anything.

~ $ firefox 

(process:1851): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
[1851] ###!!! ABORT: JS_SetICUMemoryFunctions failed.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/xpcom/build/nsXPComInit.cpp, line 766
[1851] ###!!! ABORT: JS_SetICUMemoryFunctions failed.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/xpcom/build/nsXPComInit.cpp, line 766
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The updated packages:

~ $ grep 2014-11-26 /var/log/pacman.log 
[2014-11-26 01:26] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -Sy'
[2014-11-26 01:26] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-11-26 01:26] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm -u'
[2014-11-26 01:26] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-11-26 01:26] [PACMAN] upgraded expac (4-1 -> 4-2)
[2014-11-26 01:26] [PACMAN] upgraded flac (1.3.0-4 -> 1.3.0-5)
[2014-11-26 01:27] [PACMAN] upgraded flashplugin (11.2.202.418-1 -> 11.2.202.424-1)
[2014-11-26 01:27] [PACMAN] upgraded pcre (8.36-1 -> 8.36-2)
[2014-11-26 01:27] [PACMAN] upgraded grep (2.20-1 -> 2.21-1)
[2014-11-26 01:27] [PACMAN] upgraded lz4 (123-1 -> 124-1)
[2014-11-26 02:01] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Syu'
[2014-11-26 02:01] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-11-26 02:01] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-11-26 02:01] Exited with code 0

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: After small update, Firefox seg-faulting

Does it work with a fresh profile and disabled plugins?

theodoreward

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Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 20

Re: After small update, Firefox seg-faulting

Does it work with a fresh profile and disabled plugins?

Don't think so, I tried starting with "-safe-mode" and "-ProfileManager" options both with no change.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: After small update, Firefox seg-faulting

Are you sure it disables flashplugin?
Are you using the stock firefox?

theodoreward

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Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 20

Re: After small update, Firefox seg-faulting

Are you sure it disables flashplugin?
Are you using the stock firefox?

Its plain 64bit firefox from the repo. I tried removing ~/.mozilla with no luck, not sure what else to do to ensure no flash plugin is loading.

~ $ mv .mozilla/ .mozilla.bak/
~ $ firefox 

(process:3731): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
[3731] ###!!! ABORT: JS_SetICUMemoryFunctions failed.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/xpcom/build/nsXPComInit.cpp, line 766
[3731] ###!!! ABORT: JS_SetICUMemoryFunctions failed.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/xpcom/build/nsXPComInit.cpp, line 766
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
~ $ firefox -safe-mode

(process:3735): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
[3735] ###!!! ABORT: JS_SetICUMemoryFunctions failed.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/xpcom/build/nsXPComInit.cpp, line 766
[3735] ###!!! ABORT: JS_SetICUMemoryFunctions failed.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/xpcom/build/nsXPComInit.cpp, line 766
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
~ $ 
~ $ firefox -v

(process:3739): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
Mozilla Firefox 33.1.1
~ $ 

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: After small update, Firefox seg-faulting

[2014-11-26 01:26] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm -u'
<snip>
[2014-11-26 02:01] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Syu'

it's a longshot, but if you use the --noconfirm option most of the time, maybe you missed some necessary updates / replaces ?

please run pacman -Syu to verify if you missed something.

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theodoreward

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Registered: 2013-04-05

Posts: 20

Re: After small update, Firefox seg-faulting

Well, I found a few bug reports having to do with Firefox+QT Widget backend. I don't really know what that means exactly, but the way I worked around this issue is by removing firefox, and then installing "firefox-kde-opensuse" from AUR, its apparently firefox that has been better patched to integrate with KDE.