firefox-bin crashed with SIGSEGV

[Mårten Woxberg]

Binary package hint: firefox

in www.gmail.com reading a mail

I clicked the link:

mailto:<email address hidden>?Subject=Remove#<email address hidden>&body=Please+click+send.

All of firefox went grey and then I force quitted it.

The next time I pressed the link gmail sprouted out a new window as expected.
Although without the subject and body filled in but I guess that's a gmail issue.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 6 08:29:16 2007
Disassembly: 0xffffe410:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 2.0.0.10+2nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
ProcCwd: /home/max
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox
Stacktrace: #0 0xffffe410 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Title: firefox-bin crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux lillemor 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

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StacktraceTop:?? ()

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Hi,

unfortunately your crash report didn't yield the required information. This can eventually happen. Please go ahead and submit new crash reports in future.

Thanks for your contribution,
  - Alexander

[Mårten Woxberg (maxmc)]

Alexander Sack: Did you even try to reproduce it?

This system is running a Current Hardy (but this happens on Gutsy too),
It's using Compiz with the Nvidia drivers on a Geforce 7600

Have a firefox window open, Go into System/Settings/Looks? and change to no graphic effects (eg. no compiz), the firefox window should now turn 100% transparent,
it won't draw a thing. Now go into Settings again and change back to use compiz (I use custom settings (attached)).
Firefox now either is still transparent or 100% black, and it won't answer to anything. The crash I reported above occurs when I Force Quit the application.

It's 100% reproducible for me.

[Mårten Woxberg (maxmc)]

I've actually managed to do the switch without firefox crashing once now.

Have a few tabs up and preferably a site which uses Flash to make it crash.

[wolfger (wolfger)]

This bug has been sitting at "incomplete" for some time now, but I don't see any unanswered request for information. If information is still required, please let the submitter know what to provide. Setting back to "new".

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Are you still able to reproduce this bug in Hardy with Firefox-2 or Firefox-3.0

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thank you for the bug report. Could you please install the firefox-dbg package and try to obtain a backtrace (or crash report) by following the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

Which flash package and version do you have installed?
Which Java package and version do you have installed?
Which video player and version do you have installed?
Which firefox extensions and themes do you have installed?

If this happens in Firefox-3.0 the instructions for obtaining a backtrace are on the same wiki above.