firefox crashes when downloading or uploading attachments

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: firefox

I get this & ff crashes.

(gecko:6237): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

I couldn't get the attachment so please find the attachment of gdb-firefox.log at http://pastebin.ca/898579

If somebody can upload it would be appreciative.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 10 19:11:51 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.10+2nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux Mugglewille 2.6.24-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 7 01:29:58 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

i cannot reproduce this. We have chattet a bit on IRC and it looks like its related to your specific system install.

Attaching strace -f firefox
or trying to upgrade to latest firefox
as well as disabling all extensions might give us a better clue on whats going on.

[pvdeynse (vandeynse)]

i have a similar problem and created Bug #187666 a while ago, since then i'm still trying to understand what's going on
all i can say now is that is is not firefox only related, because i can make crash nearly any application.
all i need to do is to open the application e.g. firefox or thunderbird and goto -> Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks...
in the new window labeled "Bookmarks Manager" -> File -> Import...
         new window labeled "Import Wizard" click on Next button
         new window labeled "Import Bookmark File" -> click cancel to close this window
        now we are back on window labeled "Bookmark Manager"
               repeat same procedure -> File ->Import
                             firefox will hang now, and eventualy crash

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

After taking out all the extensions & upgrading 2.0.12 the downloads the uploads still have to be investigated.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

The upload is also working, I just uploaded a 100 KIB file to rapidshare without any issues. For the time it seems to have been resolved the issue.

[pvdeynse (vandeynse)]

sorry if i'm wrong, but this bug is solved with the software uodate of today:

Commit Log for Wed Feb 13 09:15:20 2008

.......
gvfs (0.1.7-0ubuntu1) to 0.1.7-0ubuntu2
gvfs-backends (0.1.7-0ubuntu1) to 0.1.7-0ubuntu2
......
libgvfscommon0 (0.1.7-0ubuntu1) to 0.1.7-0ubuntu2
......

[pvdeynse (vandeynse)]

i can confirm that firefox no longer crashes after today's software update as explained above