firefox-granparadiso crashed (/w cairo assert)

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: firefox-granparadiso

... firefox-granparadiso crashes with new profile

create a new profile with firefox-granparadiso 3.0~alpha5-0ubuntu2 using firefox-granparadiso --profilemanager & nothing is in use . Firefox crashes giving the following error.

shirish@ubuntu:~$ firefox-granparadiso --profilemanager

***MEMORY-WARNING***: firefox-granparadiso-bin[7335]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...
firefox-granparadiso-bin: /build/buildd/libcairo-1.4.8/src/cairo-hash.c:196: _cairo_hash_table_destroy: Assertion `hash_table->live_entries == 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

libcairo2 version is 1.4.8-1

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank you Shirish Agarwal for submitting this report.

Could you please try to obtain a backtrace by following the instructions
on [1], or upload the crash report that probably was generated during
the crash and that should be located at /var/crash/ to [2].

Please indicate which extensions/plugins do you have enabled; and if
this crash is reproducible describe the steps that lead to it (it is
very important for us to have a test case for each crash).

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

Thanks in advance.

H. Montoliu

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-granparadiso/+bug/122735/+addcomment

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

I think you better close this down for the moment, for before I was able to reproduce it but after installing the -dbgsym I'm unable to get this reproduced. I do have Adblock Plus extension enabled. Another thing though which I observed is after I have exited from File > Quit or X above it does not give back the CLI control. I have to invariably do a CTRL^C which gives me back the CLI. If you think either of these things need some more investigation please lemme know.

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank you for your feedback,

we are closing now this report, please, reopen it at any time if you have more related info.

> Another thing though which I observed is after I have exited from File > Quit or X above it does not give back the CLI control. I have to invariably do a CTRL^C which gives me back the CLI

That might deserve another bug report. Please check that it happens always and fill up a new report so that issue can have the right visibility.

Thanks in advance.

H. Montoliu

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

reopening ... this crash is an assertion and happens if you link paradiso against vanilla cairo. Mozilla's in source cairo is a patched one that makes all assertions non-fatal.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this still an issue with more recent versions of firefox-3.0?

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

I have no idea if this is still an issue or not for I don't know if asac has linked or de-linked vanilla cairo or not. As far as firefox crashes are concerned, they have definitely become less, but due to what I'm not sure.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

we haven't received any duplicates for some time. I guess this has been fixed in the meantime.