firefox segfaults on dual head

[khul]

Binary package hint: firefox

With the latest gutsy, firefox crashes immediately with a segmentation fault when I
start on an external display in dual head mode. On the screen of the laptop (hp tc440 running X86_64) it works fine. Here is the traceback from gdb:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 47971900024032 (LWP 9033)]
0x00002ba1521491e0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
(gdb) where
#0 0x00002ba1521491e0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#1 0x00002ba15213610b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#2 0x00002ba1521000a6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#3 0x00002ba15210a06e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#4 0x00002ba15210b703 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#5 0x00002ba15210c717 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#6 0x00002ba15210ca2f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#7 0x00002ba15210a385 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#8 0x00002ba1520fd97c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#9 0x00002ba1520f7220 in cairo_fill_preserve () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#10 0x00002ba1520f7239 in cairo_fill () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
#11 0x00002aaaaba1bf0c in ubuntulooks_draw_progressbar_trough ()
   from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libubuntulooks.so
#12 0x00002aaaaba130f3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libubuntulooks.so
#13 0x00002ba14f22016e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0x00002ba14f21e10f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#15 0x00002ba1519e499a in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00002ba1519f4add in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00002ba1519f5ad3 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00002ba1519f5ca3 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#19 0x00002ba14f30ead7 in gtk_widget_realize () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#20 0x00002ba14f30f2f7 in gtk_widget_set_parent () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#21 0x00002ba14f192f38 in gtk_fixed_put () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#22 0x00002ba1519e499a in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#23 0x00002ba1519f4add in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#24 0x00002ba1519f5ad3 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#25 0x00002ba1519f5ca3 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#26 0x00002aaaae5f1009 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/components/libgfx_gtk.so

[Justin M. Wray (wray-justin)]

Thank you for the bug report. Also, please answer these questions:

Is this crash reproducible? If so, which are the steps that lead to it?
Which flash package do you have installed?
Which Java package do you have installed?
Which firefox extensions do you have installed?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

Thanks,
Justin M. Wray

[khul (klas-hultqvist)]

It is highly reproducible: Whenever I try to start firefox on the external screen it crashes immediately.

It fails like this without flash or java plugins. (I cleared the plugin-directory so that about:pugins tells me that no plugins are installed.)

I have not installed any extensions myself, but the Add-on manager lists
ubufox 0.4~beta1.

[Niranjan (niranjansivakumar)]

I am having the same problem on my secondary screen with firefox. Firefox starts without a problem on the primary display (0) but segfaults immediately upon start on the secondary monitor (1).

[arno_b (arno.b)]

A duplicate report which has a stacktrace:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/173052

[hostmann (uwe-hostmann)]

I've the same problem with firefox 3.0.5 under RHEL5.3.
Has the bug been fixed intermediately?

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

I tested this some years ago and it was working I think in 2009. Can someone confirm that it's fixed. I don't have this hardware any more.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing because of no response.