firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()

[Jim Garten]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

With a prior instantiation of Firefox running, opening another occurance from the Gnome panel caused error to be reported.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/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:
 getenv () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_getenv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
 exit () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
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