firefox segv after ubuntu upgrade

Bug #155959 reported by proccy
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Alexander Sack

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Upgraded ubuntu to 7.10
Now firefox crashes at random times with segmentation fault.

One page that seems to always kill it is
http://www.timezone.com/library/wbore/wbore0007

I can get a coredump but it isn't much use
(gdb) where
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb7d6c590 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2 0x080577f6 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000b in ?? ()
#4 0xbf8c01ec in ?? ()
#5 0x00000000 in ?? ()

(gdb) info threads
  16 process 20531 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  15 process 20532 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  14 process 20533 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  13 process 20534 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  12 process 20535 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  11 process 20536 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  10 process 20537 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  9 process 20538 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  8 process 20544 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  7 process 20545 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  6 process 20546 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  5 process 20547 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  4 process 20588 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  3 process 20589 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  2 process 20590 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
* 1 process 20530 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 22 21:27:13 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 2.0.0.6+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux paul-ubuntu 2.6.22-14-386 #1 Sun Oct 14 22:36:54 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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proccy (woods-paul) wrote :
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Mario Young (mayeco) wrote :

Please provide more info about this crash

Thank you!

Changed in firefox:
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

Hi,

thanks for submitting your bugreport. Unfortunately this report doesn't contain all the information needed to efficiently process it.

To fix this, please resubmit the crash report you find in /var/crash by clicking on the .crash file that you should find there. This should open the crash report submission tool shipped by ubuntu and will provide us with valuable information to work on your crash.

Thanks for your contribution,

 - Alexander

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → asac
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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proccy (woods-paul) wrote :

crash report submitted
thanks for your interest - using opera is getting old quickly

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