Firefox crushes after download with Segmentation fault

[Tarin Mahmood]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox Crushes with Segmentation Fault Immediately *After* the download is completed (download does not fails). If it happens 2/3 time all the applications launched after the crush, fails to load. I have to restart the system to resolve the problem.

To repeat the problem, just download a file using the Firefox download manager,

Ubuntu:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

firefox:
  Installed: 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 16 11:56:53 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
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/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Danilo Penna Queiroz (daniloqueiroz)]

Can you reproduce this bug with *ALL* your extensions disabled?

I suggest you move the firefox profile (~/.mozilla) and try to reproduce this.

[Tarin Mahmood (mrlinux045)]

Got it!
Prism was the problem. I've checked with all the extensions disabled first,
then enabled them one by one. Firefox crushed with Prism enabled. My Prism
version is 0.2 Maybe I should try with the later version

T. Mahmood
Arena Mobile, Bangladesh

[peppelorum (peppe-peppesbodega)]

I can confirm both the bug and that disabling prism solves it.

[Rui Boon (ruiboon)]

Did you install the prism extention from the repos or from elsewhere? You can check using 'apt-cache policy prism'. The command to install it will be 'sudo apt-get install prism'

According to https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/236613/comments/13 prism packages from ubuntu repos don't cause issues with firefox in ubuntu.

Marking this bug as a duplicate of bug 236613

[Giuseppe Noviello (giunov)]

I use prism extension and it works very well, no issue. The problem was just
a corrupted profile as explained buy Mozilla FAQ.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Rui Boon <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 236613 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236613
>
> Did you install the prism extention from the repos or from elsewhere?
> You can check using 'apt-cache policy prism'. The command to install it
> will be 'sudo apt-get install prism'
>
> According to
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/236613/comments/13
> prism packages from ubuntu repos don't cause issues with firefox in
> ubuntu.
>
> Marking this bug as a duplicate of bug 236613
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 236613
> firefox 3 rc with prism extension crashes when download a file.
>
> --
> Firefox crushes after download with Segmentation fault
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240312
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (via bug 236613).
>

[TimMadden (timmadden)]

Let's keep things straight here. There are two pieces of software out there that, as I understand it, do slightly different things. First, came the prism application. This is software is in the Ubuntu repositories and allows you to set up prism 'webapps' and is standalone from the browser. The second software is a Firefox extension. With this extension, you get a menu item added to firefox's tools menu that allows you to take the webpage you are on and convert it into a prism webapp.

Indeed, I have the ubuntu standalone prism package from the repos and it works fine. It is the prism extension installed from, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6665 , that causes the crash. The issue may be related to the fact that the application from the repos is prism 0.8 based and the extension is based (as far as I know) on 0.9. I have not tried to create a new profile to see if the extension works with a new one. Regardless, it is a bug IMHO.