Firefox crashes then can't be restarted until reboot

[jkeegan]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox 3.0b5 (installed by ubuntu 8.04) has at least twice now hung, leaving all running firefox windows without repaint/update events (move a window in front of it and 'paint' it). Forcing the windows to disappear via xkill then killing any remaining processes (ps auxw | grep -i firefox, get #, then kill -9) still leaves my machine in a state where I can't start firefox - nothing happens. Rebooting ubuntu fixes it. This didn't happen in the default firefox (some version of 2) that comes with ubuntu 7.10.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 9 17:40:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please try to obtain a backtrace by following the instructions on [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs, or upload (as an attachment) the crash report from /var/crash/.

Also, please answer these questions:
Is this crash reproducible? If so, which are the steps that lead to it?
Which flash package do you have installed?
Which Java package do you have installed?
Which Firefox extensions do you have installed?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

Actually sorry about that, I just noticed that the plugin log was attached to the bug report...

Could you just indicate how I could go about re-creating this bug?

Thanks,

Richard Seguin

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

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!