Firefox crashes after watching embedded video (undefined symbol: NS_CStringContainerInit)

Firefox backtrace

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a debug backtrace with totem-gstreamer-dbgsym installed (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash) and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

I doubt that the new backtrace is more useful, but now Firefox directly crashes opening that page: http://www.tagesschau.de/video/0,1315,OID6421744_RES_NAV_BAB,00.html (German sadly). ticking "Windows Media" and clicking on "Video starten".

I will attach it, following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs, though.

That's a duplicate from bug #85111

From one duplicate:

"However the function (NS_CStringContainerInit) is part of the Mozilla libraries, so this may be a firefox/mozilla problem.

The output from firefox is:

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/totem/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so: undefined symbol: NS_CStringContainerInit

A couple of objdump runs show that the function needed is provided by /usr/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so. Perhaps there are link problems in how the totem firefox plugins are being built.

There is a work around. Run firefox with:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so:/usr/lib/firefox/libxpcom_core.so firefox

This forces the right libs to be linked in.

I am using Feisty of 2007 02 17."

Looks like that's one change from the new firefox packaging

Just to demonstrate, hit this link .. it kills my firefox instantly (and gets saved in the current session, so firefox then crashes on start. )

http://hereisyourpolicebrutality.ytmnd.com/

That upload fixes the problem:

 totem (2.17.91-0ubuntu3) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control.in:
     - use Desktop Team for Maintainer
   * debian/patches/01_build_mozilla_plugin_with_xpcom.dpatch:
     - build with libxpcom to fix mozilla plugin crasher due to firefox change
       (Ubuntu: #85112)

For firefox, please keep this bug open until we have processed duplicates for this.

The update to totem 2.17.91-0ubuntu3 fixed for me.
Thanks guys !

though not directly related, mozilla bug 366113 may be worth a read too. Plugins that want to link against libxpcom shall do so explicitly by using mozilla-xpcom.pc; mozilla-plugin.pc will not be enough in future.

This has landed for 2.0.0.2. So be aware of it.

though not exactly an issue, i reenabled this for feisty release in 2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu1.
Note: auto-loading libxpcom.so will be gone in feisty+1.

I reported your earlier comment about mozilla bug 366113 upstream, at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409581.

You may want to check the bug report there out.

I'm not sure if this is the same bug, but I am using Firefox in Feisty and it crashes with SIGSEGV when watching videos.
I can reproduce this crash.

These are the last lines of the strace:
gettimeofday({1194737237, 338513}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=80, events=POLLIN}], 7, 0) = 0
gettimeofday({1194737237, 338616}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=80, events=POLLIN}], 7, 0) = 0
write(3, "\24\0\6\0\6\1\340\0\363\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\377\377\377"..., 24) = 24
read(3, "\1 \375W\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
write(71, "=\0\4\0\304\0\200\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\35\0\200\1"..., 32) = 32
read(71, "\1\0\31\6\3\0\0\0#\0\0\0\1\0\1\1\377\377\377\377\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
read(71, "\377\377k\0\377\377+\0\0\0\317\277", 12) = 12
read(71, "\1\30\32\6\0\0\0\0u\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\251\1^\1\0\0k\0\377\377"..., 32) = 32
mmap2(0xa2102000, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa2102000
mmap2(NULL, 929792, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xaee8c000
munmap(0xaef6f000, 929792) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
unlink("/home/tdn/.mozilla/firefox/uzz5tnl4.default/lock") = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [SEGV], NULL, 8) = 0
tgkill(17172, 17172, SIGSEGV) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---

A much longer strace is attached in bzip2 for saving space.