Crash after memory bloat.

Bug #276059 reported by Scott Prader
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox 3.0.3 crashes upon starting if it has been stopped already, after it has started to chew memory up and the system slowed to uncomfortable speeds of sluggishness.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/User Name/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
StacktraceTop:
 toupper_w () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 toupper_ascii () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 StrCaseCmp () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 strequal () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
 set_socket_options () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
Title: firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in toupper_w()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner vboxusers video

Tags: apport-crash
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Scott Prader (gnea) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic stack trace

StacktraceTop:toupper_w (val=83) at lib/util_unistr.c:422
StrCaseCmp (s=0xb159088a "SO_KEEPALIVE", t=0xb22bab88 "SO_BROADCAST") at lib/util_str.c:235
strequal (s1=0xb159a3c0 "hq\r", s2=0x0) at lib/util_str.c:290
set_socket_options (fd=43, options=0xb157725d "") at lib/util_sock.c:233
_nss_wins_gethostbyname_r (hostname=0x8571b84 "www.mittip.nu", he=0xb22bb1a8,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic threaded stack trace
Changed in firefox-3.0:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

memory bloat is often caused by extensions and flash. try to disable flash or use an extension like flash block to minimize its impact on your browser experience.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

 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 if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

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!

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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