[SOLVED] firefox 3.0.6 - segmentation fault

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Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:05 am

I just upgraded to mozilla-firefox-3.0.6
and when I try to start firefox I get:
segmentation fault

Does anybody have any idea what it might be?

emerge --info

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Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r3-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:30:17 +0000
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CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc"
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PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.103/gentoo-portage"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

nmp0906 · Post by **nmp0906** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:34 pm

Did you recompile it a second time (to ensure it wasn't a compile time error/issue)? If so, did you try compiling it without any USE flags (# USE="-*" emerge -av mozilla-firefox)? That should isolate USE issues, which are variable.

Try launching it from a terminal and posting any output generated (including the seg fault).

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:29 pm

nmp0906 wrote:Did you recompile it a second time (to ensure it wasn't a compile time error/issue)? If so, did you try compiling it without any USE flags (# USE="-*" emerge -av mozilla-firefox)? That should isolate USE issues, which are variable.

Try launching it from a terminal and posting any output generated (including the seg fault).

No go.
I did try to re-emerge but it doesn't help.
When I start from the terminal all I get is:
Segmentation fault.

I thought maybe it could be somehow related to this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252302
so I recompile it against new glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 but it didn't help.

This problem only occur on my AMD64 amd-cpu, on my other Intel AMD64 it compiled and works OK.

nmp0906 · Post by **nmp0906** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:52 pm

Looks like that may be a diff issue, since the problem patch was dropped in the -r2 version of glibc, that and the issue was resolved with the release of 3.0.6. I suppose you could try emerging glibc-2.9_p20081201 before any of the recent patches were added. Also, I would look into the flash plugin (and any others you may have installed recently).

I'm assuming you have the latest versions of said flash plugin if you've done an emerge -DuNav world.

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:30 pm

nmp0906 wrote:Looks like that may be a diff issue, since the problem patch was dropped in the -r2 version of glibc, that and the issue was resolved with the release of 3.0.6. I suppose you could try emerging glibc-2.9_p20081201 before any of the recent patches were added. Also, I would look into the flash plugin (and any others you may have installed recently).

I'm assuming you have the latest versions of said flash plugin if you've done an emerge -DuNav world.

Do you mean going back from glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 to glibc-2.9_p20081201.
I would like to try it but apparently downgrading glibc is not supported:

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* Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
 *  Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
 *
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *                    ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *   glibc-2.9_p20081201.ebuild, line  228:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                      die "aborting to save your system"
 *  The die message:
 *   aborting to save your system

nmp0906 · Post by **nmp0906** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:44 pm

Sorry about that, I forgot about that little caveat. I still do not think it is an issue with glibc though, since the troubled patches should have been removed in -r2. Did you look into plugins that may be causing this? Also, does Firefox start ever? Or is it just intermittent. The bug you were referred has people with intermittent crashes.

What was the deal with 3.0.5? Did the issue start with just 3.0.6? What else has been upgraded between those version changes provided everything worked .5?

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:29 pm

I don't have any plug-in's installed.
When I downgraded to ver. 2.0.0.6 it runs just fine.
What is surprising me that is only occur on AMD64 amd-cpu; Intel AMD64 runs firefox-3.0.6 just fine.

Firefox will not start at all. If I don't resolve this issue by tonight I'll go back to 2.0.0.6 and mask 3.0.6
I was Googling for "Firefox-3.0.6 segmentation fault" and seems to me some other folks in other distros have similar problem.

nmp0906 · Post by **nmp0906** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:36 pm

I don't think I can be of much more assistance here. My only x64 build is an Intel VM (and gui-less), my other box is x86 (which FF 3.0.6 runs fine on). How about masking =www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.6, which will pull in 3.0.5 instead? No reason to go all the way back to 2.x series.

Also, you could try pulling down firefox-bin for the time being, it won't be 64-bit, but it will nonetheless be the latest version. Plus, both compiled and bin version can be installed simultaneously, so you can continue addressing the 3.0.6 issue while having a working browser.

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:42 am

I think, they removed the 3.0.5 from portage.
I've installed binary 3.0.6 and it is working. How do you switch between compiled and binary version? I've never tried running both at the same time.

nmp0906 · Post by **nmp0906** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:36 am

I believe the executable is firefox vs firefox-bin. Running the -bin will run the binary version. I am not sure if you can run them at the same time, as firefox checks to see if there are firefox processes already running, but you are more than welcome to try.

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:18 am

This problem with segmentation fault is solved in Firefox 3.0.7

v_andal · Post by **v_andal** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:48 am

I got very interesting problem with firefox 3.0.7. It coredumps when I close it. Actually, I'm pretty sure that it coredumps when I access www.googlemail.com site during the session. The funniest thing is that it crashes only when I close it. In the simple case I just start firefox, open my account on www.googlemail.com and then close firefox - now I have fresh coredump in my home directory. Actually, the crash also happened after I've accessed this forum

Anyone experienced this?

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:40 am

I can not duplicate it.
www.googlemail.com closes cleanly here.

v_andal · Post by **v_andal** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:17 am

Well, this is some bug depending on the phase of the moon I guess

Today I don't get coredumps as often. After 3 closing attempts it dumped core only once. I guess I'll have to take the coredump and send it to firefox developers. It might be connected with one of the plugins.

v_andal · Post by **v_andal** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:41 am

I'm not sure if this is related to previous crashes, but looks like newest version of flash player for 64-bit version of Firefox can not handle the flash on
http://www.ebay.de

At least I couldn't open that page at all. Now I've removed flash player and it shows up fine. Before firefox would crash "illegal hardware instruction (core dumped) firefox".