Firefox Seg Faulting

ThePsychoHobbit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 86

I know there've been a lot of other posts about this, but none seemed to help at all.

Basically, I'll be browsing, and Firefox just closes The problem is irregular and does not happen often--maybe once a day, today it happened twice. It seems to have nothing to do with viewing certain pages, as it sometimes happens simply from clicking on a link that I've clicked on dozens of times that day already.

I have tried recompiling Firefox, deleting compreg.dat, moving the entire ~/.mozilla directory, recompiling Xorg (well, this wasn't for Firefox, Xorg 6.8 caused all sorts of problems for me, so in downgrading, it was recompiled...). I have NOT tried loosening the CFLGAS (which I will be trying eventually), recompiling Fluxbox.or downgrading Firefox to 0.9.

Any help would be welcome...

The output to the terminal upon crash.

pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

Some people have reported problems with firefox segfaulting on certian pages. You say that's not it, but it could be related. Luckily, it's a prerelease. Hopefully these things will be fixed in the final version.

I also use the same apps you do, and it works perfectly here. What compile flags are you using?
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ThePsychoHobbit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 86

I'm guess it is related. I was having the same problems (someone on here posted a specific page that always freezes when you click the Login button--some bank page, I think it was. It froze like a charm, every time, until I recompiled and etc, which made it work fine.) But now, it's entirely random, or so it seems. Sometimes it's a link, sometimes a form, sometimes simply clicking inside of a text box or clicking on the page will do it. I haven't noticed a pattern between the sites, yet, except that http://bootleggers.us has had it happen numerous times.

Use flags were +gtk2, +java, +moznoxft, +truetype, +xprint. Compile flags are below:

egrep "^[A-Z]+FLAGS" /etc/make.conf

ASpott · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 33 Location: California

I had the same problem, so I reverted to regular mozilla for a while. I had previously emerged mozilla-firefox-bin then I emerged the compiling version mozilla-firefox over it. When I went to start using firefox instead of regular mozilla again, I get that segfault error and it won't open at all. So any help to this would be great.
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pianosaurus · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 944 Location: Bash$

Ok. My USE flags:

warpedshadow · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2004 Posts: 1

Bugzilla Bug #255372 - FF10PR1 Crash with any javascript popup window (window.open) [@ 0x00000000 - nsCOMPtr_base::assign_with_AddRef ] might be what you are experinceing. This has been fixed in the 2004-10-23 Branch builds.

aminal · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:23 pm Post subject:

Check the locations and version of your plug-ins. I kept getting that segfault when I would view a flash page, or a page with a midi file, etc. Turned out that firefox would take a dump when loading these pages because I had the plugins both in /opt/netscape/plugins and ~/.mozilla/plugins. So, I simply renamed the folder in ~/.mozilla/ to plugins1 (I didn't want to delete it, just keep it from being read) and the problem went away.

Also, in your xorg.conf file, if you have

ASpott · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 33 Location: California

Well although there appeared to be no conflicts with plugin folders, I renamed the folder in /opt/netscape/plugins to plugins1 and firefox actually loaded. Still though, it doesn't work perfectly -- when I tried to update the "critical update" with their built in update system it failed, and when I try to load it with the flag --g-fatal-warnings it fails, so obviously theres some errors when it loads up. But it does still WORK.
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cbradney · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:18 am Post subject:

I enabled Composite yesterday and then I had problems today. Removed it, all good.

Xamindar · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:56 pm Post subject:

strange, firefox crashes on me now too. I disabled composite support and now so far it seems to be working fine.

What could have changed? All I did was update glibc, firefox, and some bison package. Does the latest firefox try to use the composite extentions and just fail miserably?

Jesu · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

Been having this problem the last two days (my mac broke down, so i'm back on the linux box...) with firefox-bin and firefox. I just did a fresh compile, and came back with this after a random length of time:

KristyX · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:03 am Post subject:

Firefox used to randomly crash (silently though.. no errors are shown unless you run it from a terminal) but it was only once in awhile. And this was from the time I was running XFree86.

After switching over and also adding the composite extension in Xorg, it crashed twice in a row. I didn't wait for a 3rd time before disabling the composite extension.. and everything is working fine now (I'm still executing it from a terminal to see if there are any errors if it does crash).

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KristyX · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:27 am Post subject:

Alright, Firefox just crashed again. The earlier error (caused by Xorg's Composite Extension) was the same as Jesu's.

This time, it's:

younker · Apprentice Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 280 Location: China

when I try to do an drag and drop operation in firefox, mozilla or thunderbird, they quit without a message

eg. browser a website, and I want to add it to the bookmark, so I select the website icon from the address bar and try to drag it to the bookmark sidebar. then firefox crashed.

In thunderbird, select a mail from inbox and then try to drag it to trash box, crashed.

I tried to use the default CFLAGS to rebuild all these apps, the problem still there.

younker · Apprentice Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 280 Location: China

I just solved my problem, gtk+ can't be compiled with -mmmx -msse2 , after I removed the two flags from CFLAGS and recompile gtk+, the problem disappeared

bin-doph · Guru Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 302

hmm, I have enabled the composite extensions 'cause I like the real transparency and with that enabled I can reproduce the crash. everytime I visit a site with flash on it firefox crash's (like http://www.macromedia.com)

HAL_9000 · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: firefox> solved for me

As I read in another topic (which I cannot find at the moment due to all the threads about this very problem

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funeagle · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:41 am Post subject:

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.

This is an Xorg problem XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 firefox solves the problem, try adding

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

hey i just compiled firefox stable version, sync'ed yesterday (feb 28th), and today being march 1st

funeagle · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

did you set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS ?

I've clicked on both of the links and it showed them all right.

I have net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0.1 as well

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

i have been using 1.0 and just tried XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS (call me a noob for not see'ing your last post at your will)

still crashes though. going to upgrade to 1.0.1 again and see.

kidgenius · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 36

I have had a similar problem for quite sometime. It only happens as a regular user, not as root. If I have a page open as a regular user, then open another instance of FF as root and load an offending page, I get a crash. If I load as root first, I can navigate without a crash. I have also tried firefox-bin, a compiled version of FF and neither one makes a difference. I have been able to get a few pages that I know do it every single time. www.apple.com is a major one that causes the segfault. www.beaglewiki.org is another. www.rade8.net is another. I figure there is some common thread between all of these pages that causes the segfault. I have removed my plugins directory, deleted all of my gnome preferences, but to no avail. The only thing I haven't tried is changing the font permissions. I wil have to give that a shot. Is this something that could be X related and has to do with which "display" FF is running on? I say this just because of the weird root/user issues that do or don't crash. (I've had this problem with xfree 4.3, xorg 6, 6.1, & 6.2 as well)