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firefox-3.0 package

firefox-3.0 crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()

Bug #188513 reported by Bryan Quigley on 2008-02-03

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Similar to Bug:147268
However I am not making any claim to being able to reproduce it.
At the time in question I was opening two links out of google search.

Was original bug: 184488. but I decided to open a new one (and invalidate the old one) without any personal information.
A note: I am running the nouveau experimental driver.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 2 22:50:53 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0-3.0b3pre/firefox-3.0
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b3~cvs20080101t1000+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0-3.0b3pre/firefox-3.0
ProcCwd: /home/bryan
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
StacktraceTop:
__kernel_vsyscall ()
raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b3pre/libxul.so
?? ()
?? ()
Title: firefox-3.0 crashed with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall()
Uname: Linux homer 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote on 2008-02-03:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (419 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (24.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (686 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (476 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (244 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (6.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-02-03: Symbolic stack trace

#2

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (556 bytes, text/plain)

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

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-02-03: Symbolic threaded stack trace

#3

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (23.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2008-02-03: Stack trace with source code

#4

StacktraceSource.txt Edit (528 bytes, text/plain)

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote on 2008-02-03:

#5

This website seems to be the culprit (this time):
www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu

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Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley) wrote on 2008-02-03:

#6

This appears to only crash when running the unstable nouveau driver.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-02-20:

#7

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

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status:	New → Invalid

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miked (miked11) wrote on 2008-02-27:

#8

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 Alpha 5
root@tower-desktop:~#
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/184957

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