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firefox freezes after a few secs on ppc

Bug #40067 reported by Mark Van den Borre
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Firefox freezes after working with it for a few secs. Nothing else acting up. Epiphany (also gtk and gecko based) seems to work fine.

Terminal output:

mark@looksaus:~$ firefox
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x7fc6eba4 ***

System: iBook ppc G4, Dapper up to date as of 2006/04/18, 23:24 GMT
ii firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :

Oops, terminal not wide enough. Make that:

ii firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu12 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data

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Leonardo Pistone (leop) wrote : thunderbird also, possible related bug, behaviour when crashed

This affects thunderbird also for me. Things were fine with dapper flight 3, and the bug appeared after updating all the packages.

bugzilla.mozilla.org #281798 might be connected.

when crashed the panel and other application freeze to, but killing firefox from a text console brings them back to life.

thanks

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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :

This exact same problem now also show in epiphany, this other gecko based browser.

ii epiphany-browser 2.14.1-0ubuntu2 Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data

Leonardo, it might be helpful to know if this is ppc-specific. Did you too encounter this bug on ppc?

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Leonardo Pistone (leop) wrote : Epiphany unaffected on ppc

I'm currently using Epiphany instead of Firefox, and it works fine. The last updates as of today don't solve the problem in firefox and thunderbird.

firefox 1.5.0.2-0ubuntu1
libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu17
mozilla-thunderbird 1.5-0ubuntu6
epiphany-browser 2.14.1-0ubuntu2

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Leonardo Pistone (leop) wrote : Epiphany is not so well after all...

Actually sometimes Epiphany crashes too, silently. The window stays open but it is crashed, and nothing is printed in the terminal. I don't know if that is connected. Still, firefox crashes in a couple of seconds, Epiphany in some 10 minutes.

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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote : what gdb says with firefox-dbg installed

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(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 805442064 (LWP 23961)]
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
[New Thread 815248624 (LWP 23973)]
[New Thread 823637232 (LWP 23983)]
[New Thread 832447728 (LWP 24018)]
[New Thread 840836336 (LWP 24045)]
[New Thread 849224944 (LWP 24046)]
[New Thread 857613552 (LWP 24047)]
[New Thread 869266672 (LWP 24108)]
[Thread 869266672 (LWP 24108) exited]
[New Thread 869266672 (LWP 24109)]

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 805442064 (LWP 23961)]
0x0efce708 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) q

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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :
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Sorry for being incomplete... new to gdb and stuff. Here's the actual backtrace (not really complete, it seems):

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 805442064 (LWP 24582)]
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
[New Thread 815248624 (LWP 24592)]
[New Thread 823637232 (LWP 24596)]
[New Thread 832447728 (LWP 24621)]
[New Thread 840836336 (LWP 24635)]
[New Thread 849224944 (LWP 24637)]
[New Thread 860878064 (LWP 24684)]
[Thread 860878064 (LWP 24684) exited]
[New Thread 869266672 (LWP 24686)]

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 805442064 (LWP 24582)]
0x0efce708 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0efce708 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x0efd0104 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#10 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#11 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#12 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#13 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#14 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#15 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#16 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#17 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#18 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#19 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#20 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#21 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#22 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#23 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#24 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#25 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#26 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#27 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#28 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#29 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#30 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#31 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#32 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#33 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#34 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#35 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#36 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#37 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#38 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#39 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#40 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#41 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#42 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#43 0x0f005290 in __fsetlocking () from /lib/libc.so.6
#44 0x0f00...

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

This bug has been confirmed by more than one person, adjusting status accordingly.

Changed in firefox:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :

The system I have this problem on was originally breezy , incrementally upgraded to dapper since somewhere late last autumn.

The problem persists when I move my firefox profile out of the way.

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

i dont see this on a clean installed dapper (installed at beginning of april).

do you have any plugins installed?

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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote : Re: [Bug 40067] Re: firefox freezes after a few secs on ppc

On 5/26/06, sam tygier <email address hidden> wrote:
> i dont see this on a clean installed dapper (installed at beginning of
> april).
>
> do you have any plugins installed?
 Standard firefox install.

Mark
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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :

After reinstalling Dapper from scratch, the problem disappeared.

This bug can probably safely be closed.

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Mark Van den Borre (markvdb) wrote :

This was cruft left behind from the upgrade process. Solved after clean dapper install.

Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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