firefox-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()

[Sergio Zanchetta]

Binary package hint: firefox

I had nine tabs opened in firefox, eight of them were articles from

http://punto-informatico.it/

I was looking at this page
http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?i=2140160&p=3
and when i used scrool wheel with my mouse, firefox crashed.

This happens often in that site (not in a particular article page) with a lot of tabs opened, but it seems quite random.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Dec 13 08:47:06 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
ProcCwd: /home/sergigno
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/sergigno/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: firefox-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()
Uname: Linux entropy 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

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

I suspect it's related to flash contents in web pages...

As I told before it crashes often when I have several articles of www.punto-informatico.it opened in different tabs.
Firstly surfing becomes very slow, and then firefox grey out and freezes, after a while it crashes.
Those pages have some flash contents in them.

Today I installed "FlashBlock" extension for Firefox
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
and no more crashes or unresponsive pages.
I can surf nice.

[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

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!