epiphany-gecko crashed with SIGSEGV in g_signal_emit_valist()

[Herbert V. Riedel]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

always segfaults on startup
(something seems to be broken with applications depending on xulrunner)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: powerpc
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/epiphany-gecko
Package: epiphany-gecko 2.23.91-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: epiphany-browser
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: epiphany-browser
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 gtk_widget_realize () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: epiphany-gecko crashed with SIGSEGV in g_signal_emit_valist()
Uname: Linux 2.6.25-1-powerpc ppc
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev scanner tape video

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Herbert V. Riedel (hvr)]

I almost forgot about the bug; I followed the instructions given on

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

and generated the attached gdb log

[Herbert V. Riedel (hvr)]

I also added such a backtrace to Bug #272182

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

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[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for your report!

However, processing it in order to get sufficient information for the
developers failed (it does not generate an useful symbolic stack trace). This
might be caused by some outdated packages which were installed on your system
at the time of the report:

libgcc1: installed version 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu7, latest version: 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu12
libavahi-common3: installed version 0.6.23-2ubuntu2, latest version: 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1
libgnome2-0: installed version 2.23.92-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.24.1-0ubuntu4
libcanberra0: installed version 0.6-0ubuntu1, latest version: 0.6-0ubuntu3
epiphany-browser-data: installed version 2.23.91-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
libgnomevfs2-0: installed version 1:2.23.0-0ubuntu1, latest version: 1:2.24.0-0ubuntu1
librsvg2-common: installed version 2.22.2-2, latest version: 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
libgnutls26: installed version 2.4.1-1build1, latest version: 2.4.1-1ubuntu0.3
libpolkit2: installed version 0.9-1ubuntu1, latest version: 0.9-1ubuntu3
lsb-base: installed version 3.2-14ubuntu2, latest version: 4.0-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
libbonobo2-0: installed version 2.23.1-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
consolekit: installed version 0.2.10-1ubuntu5, latest version: 0.2.10-1ubuntu10
libssl0.9.8: installed version 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2, latest version: 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.2
libdbus-1-3: installed version 1.2.3-0ubuntu1, latest version: 1.2.4-0ubuntu1
libgnome2-common: installed version 2.23.92-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.24.1-0ubuntu4
file: installed version 4.24-4, latest version: 4.24-4ubuntu1
libpam-modules: installed version 1.0.1-4ubuntu3, latest version: 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.5
libgtk2.0-0: installed version 2.14.2-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.14.4-0ubuntu2
libpam0g: installed version 1.0.1-4ubuntu3, latest version: 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.5
gnome-icon-theme: installed version 2.23.92-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
python2.5-minimal: installed version 2.5.2-11ubuntu3, latest version: 2.5.2-11.1ubuntu1
libpolkit-dbus2: installed version 0.9-1ubuntu1, latest version: 0.9-1ubuntu3
libglib2.0-0: installed version 2.18.1-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.1
libpng12-0: installed version 1.2.27-1, latest version: 1.2.27-1ubuntu0.1
libavahi-client3: installed version 0.6.23-2ubuntu2, latest version: 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1
libsqlite3-0: installed version 3.5.9-3, latest version: 3.5.9-3ubuntu1
libx11-6: installed version 2:1.1.4-2, latest version: 2:1.1.5-2ubuntu1.1
libmagic1: installed version 4.24-4, latest version: 4.24-4ubuntu1
libgnome-keyring0: installed version 2.24.0-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support: installed version 1.9.0.2+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1, latest version: 1.9.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
libpam-runtime: installed version 1.0.1-4ubuntu3, latest version: 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.5
python2.5: installed version 2.5.2-11ubuntu3, latest version: 2.5.2-11.1ubuntu1
libgnomeui-common: installed version 2.23.90-0ubuntu1, latest version: 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
liborbit2: installed version 1:2.14.13-0.1, latest version: 1:2.14.16-0ubuntu1
libgnomecanvas2-0: installed version 2.20.1.1-1ubuntu1, latest version: 2.20.1.1-1ubuntu3
libgconf2-4: installed version 2.23.2-0ubuntu3,...