Firefox segfaults after Gnome 2.20 upgrade

quetzyg · 2007-10-14 13:36:12

Well, the subject says it all.

Here is what I get when running firefox:

[quetzyg@DRUMCODE ~]$ firefox
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.7/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  4248 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[quetzyg@DRUMCODE ~]$

Does anyone else have a similar problem?

Quetzy Garcia

Last edited by quetzyg (2007-10-14 18:22:13)

Mr Green · 2007-10-14 13:46:32

Mine crashes if I try to bookmark a page ;-(

5576a8a2-4509-33f3-70b1e77f-156cb5ff is dumped

Thunderbird now too.....

;-(

Last edited by Mr Green (2007-10-14 16:07:24)

mehldutt · 2007-10-14 17:29:41

same here ...

quetzyg · 2007-10-14 18:20:42

Mr Green wrote:

Mine crashes if I try to bookmark a page ;-(
5576a8a2-4509-33f3-70b1e77f-156cb5ff is dumped
Thunderbird now too.....
;-(

My Thunderbird runs fine, is just Firefox that crashes. I can only run it in Safe mode.

qlus · 2007-10-14 19:11:20

Try this

firefox -profilemanager

Make a new clean profile and test it.

quetzyg · 2007-10-14 19:45:20

qlus wrote:

Try this
firefox -profilemanager
Make a new clean profile and test it.

A new profile works fine, until I open the Edit/Preferences menu, and segfaults.

sen · 2007-10-14 19:50:39

I have the same problem since the last upgrade.

Dunno if my problem is just xfce related but I could fix it by selecting a different gtk-theme, like AriciU postet here.
Gtk-themes that uses the pixmap or aurora engine let firefox segfault... no problems with clearlooks and murrine themes tho.

Mr Green · 2007-10-14 20:04:58

that's weird I just tried it and its working ok and thunderbird too thanks for heads up :-)

quetzyg · 2007-10-14 20:06:50

sen wrote:

I have the same problem since the last upgrade.
Dunno if my problem is just xfce related but I could fix it by selecting a different gtk-theme, like AriciU postet here.
Gtk-themes that uses the pixmap or aurora engine let firefox segfault... no problems with clearlooks and murrine themes tho.

I was using Crux, switched to Clearlooks and works fine now. Very, very strange.

sen · 2007-10-14 20:11:36

Just for clarification, are you using xfce as well Mr Green and quetzyg?

quetzyg · 2007-10-14 20:13:31

sen wrote:

Just for clarification, are you using xfce as well Mr Green and quetzyg?

No, just plain Gnome.

Mr Green · 2007-10-14 20:17:28

Gnome....here

sen · 2007-10-14 20:37:35

Well, I found out that we are not alone.

staple · 2007-10-14 22:26:19

pacman -S opera

wulax · 2007-10-15 20:25:27

Dunno if it's useful to anyone, but:

I also had this problem, Firefox crashed when opening Preferences all the time when I was using various pixmap-engine gtk themes.

Changing theme helped, but since I didn't want to stop using my favorite theme I decided to try find out what was wrong with the themes that crashed.

I tracked it down to these lines in the ~/.themes/themename/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:
GtkOptionMenu::indicator_size
and
GtkOptionMenu::indicator_spacing

and commented them out. After that the themes and Firefox worked fine together.

Last edited by wulax (2007-10-15 20:27:22)

sen · 2007-10-15 22:12:04

Great, that works!

Thanks wulax!

hanman · 2007-10-18 18:25:14

I'm getting this same error. Unfortunately, wulax's solution didn't work for me. I'm using kdemod, and i can't find that particular gtkrc file. is it located elsewhere in KDE? any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I just checked to see if running firefox as root would cause the same problem, and, lo and behold, it works fine! so, it must be a setting for my user somewhere, but where?

EDIT: I figured out what the problem was. My Home folder was full. How embarrassing.

Last edited by hanman (2007-10-18 18:47:37)

bwalk · 2007-10-19 08:56:47

hanman wrote:

EDIT: I figured out what the problem was. My Home folder was full. How embarrassing.

Shouldn't crash though. File a bug report to the mozilla guys.

dr_te_z · 2007-10-30 21:31:44

Do I have mail? No idea:

[dick@R50p ~]$ thunderbird -safe-mode
/opt/mozilla/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  9416 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

That "safe-mode" thing is a result from my google-ing. Does not work for me

tony5429 · 2007-11-21 16:57:08

This is on a fresh Arch32 install:

[karams@karampc ~]$ firefox -safe-mode
1bb1c569-081b-bd9d-4a3b8edc-43e46e0e is dumped
[karams@karampc ~]$ firefox
0dcfc9fa-175d-89e3-49266d69-0f2cb1e3 is dumped

After switching from custom to clearlooks:

[karams@karampc ~]$ firefox
*** glibc detected *** /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/firefox-bin: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0809d190 ***
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  9390 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[karams@karampc ~]$ firefox -safe-mode
*** glibc detected *** /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/firefox-bin: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0809d190 ***
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  9401 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Running as root:

[root@karampc karams]# firefox
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.9/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  9422 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[root@karampc karams]# firefox -safe-mode
15696b1a-048e-4d7e-5cb157c8-06005c61 is dumped

I am using Clearlooks on the GNOME 2.20.1 but I cannot find the theme directory:

[karams@karampc ~]$ dir ~/.themes/Clearlooks
dir: cannot access /home/karams/.themes/Clearlooks: No such file or directory

pressh · 2007-11-21 17:14:48

system wide themes are located in /usr/share/themes.

No idea about your firefox error though

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Firefox segfaults after Gnome 2.20 upgrade

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