Segfault on startup

[James "Doc" Livingston]

Since upgrading Firefox to 1.5, and Devhelp to the version using that
(0.10-5ubuntu3), Devhelp segfaults on startup. The backtrace doesn't help much,
because it's stripped of symbols - I'll try rebuilding the package with debug
symbols later today.

#0 0xb78a3f5a in dh_html_go_back () from /usr/lib/libdevhelp-1.so.0
#1 0x080490ed in ?? ()
#2 0x0000508e in ?? ()
#3 0xbfcfde84 in ?? ()
#4 0x00000000 in ?? ()

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Just to clarify, your bug report sounds like you had
Breezy running and would have just updated Firefox and Devhelp, is that the case?

[James "Doc" Livingston (jrl)]

No, this was an install of Flight 1 (which had Firefox 1.0.7) which has been
dist-upgraded every few days since then.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

devhelp works nicely for me (on a similar system). Do you have a lot of held
back packages? If not, the full backtrace (with dbg packages) will surely help.
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash has instructions on this.

[James "Doc" Livingston (jrl)]

I've rebuilt the DevHelp package with debug symbols, but the trace isn't any
better - the other functions appear to be from something else. Are there any
packages of Firefox with debug symbols around? if not, I can rebuild it myself
and see if I can get a better trace with that.

[James "Doc" Livingston (jrl)]

I made a mistake when installing the debug pakages, so that's which I couldn't
get a trace.

#0 0xb78cdcfa in gecko_prefs_set_string (key=0xb78d437d "font.size.unit",
value=0xb78d437a "pt") at dh-gecko-utils.cpp:78
#1 0xb78cdeb4 in dh_gecko_utils_init_services () at dh-gecko-utils.cpp:210
#2 0x080491bd in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfa2b084) at dh-main.c:174

which is segfaulting at the same place that Yelp is in bug 26711

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

As we figured on IRC, that's a firefox issue

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 30791.