firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in XInternAtom()

[Roger E Critchlow Jr]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

This may be a red herring, it popped up during a rash of apport reported failures while installing latest upgrades with synaptic, and Firefox did not crash, it's still running and still displaying the same tabs it was before the upgrade.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Feb 18 18:42:55 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/firefox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+filebug/nDtpygN73WHAoqCOXCEvTmTvNFR?field.title=package+update-manager+1%3A0.87.7+failed+to+install%2Fupgrade%3A+subprocess+pre-installation+script+returned+error+exit+status+1
ProcCwd: /home/rec
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb6afc6b8 in XInternAtom () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 #1 0xb310e8f7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
 #2 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 XInternAtom () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
 ?? ()
Title: firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in XInternAtom()
Uname: Linux elf5 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev video

[Roger E Critchlow Jr (rec)]

Okay, this happened again, and what I suspect is that a bug report got lost. Apport got this error from firefox while opening firefox to upload a bug report to launchpad. The visible instance of firefox was unbothered, but the new tab and connection to launchpad were lost.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Resetting not frequently reported old crash reports.

Thanks for your contribution,
  - Alexander