[Intrepid] liferea 1.4.18-0ubuntu2 seg faults with xulrunner 1.9.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1

[Alex Kavanagh]

Binary package hint: liferea

liferea is now seg faulting after a recent aptitude safe-upgrade brought in a new version of Firefox: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1

liferea --debug-all gives:

...
...
PLUGINS: -> XulRunner Rendering Plugin (liblihtmlx.so, type=0)
PLUGINS: using "XulRunner" for HTML rendering...
TRACE: + mozembed_init (XPCOM_GLUE)
Segmentation fault

I've attached the full debug in the attachment.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Alex Kavanagh wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: liferea
>
> liferea is now seg faulting after a recent aptitude safe-upgrade brought
> in a new version of Firefox: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
>
> liferea --debug-all gives:
>
> ...
> ...
> PLUGINS: -> XulRunner Rendering Plugin (liblihtmlx.so, type=0)
> PLUGINS: using "XulRunner" for HTML rendering...
> TRACE: + mozembed_init (XPCOM_GLUE)
> Segmentation fault

Do you still get this? What architecture do you have?

[Alex Kavanagh (ajkavanagh)]

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote, On 02/01/09 08:42:
> Alex Kavanagh wrote:
>
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> Binary package hint: liferea
>>
>> liferea is now seg faulting after a recent aptitude safe-upgrade brought
>> in a new version of Firefox: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
>>
>> liferea --debug-all gives:
>>
>> ...
>> ...
>> PLUGINS: -> XulRunner Rendering Plugin (liblihtmlx.so, type=0)
>> PLUGINS: using "XulRunner" for HTML rendering...
>> TRACE: + mozembed_init (XPCOM_GLUE)
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>
> Do you still get this? What architecture do you have?
>
Yes, it is still happening. Architecture is i386.

I've also tried it with a completely new liferea profile with the same
results.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Did you install firefox-3.1 / xulrunner-1.9.1?

I've just debugged this on IRC with another user and he had installed it, and Liferea was loading xulrunner 1.9.1 and thus segfaulting.

[Foppe Hemminga (foppe)]

During the debug with Emilio Pozuelo Monfort on IRC we found the following:
My OS is Ubuntu Intrepid
I confirm the debug output by Alex Kavanagh
I tried to manually install liferea-1.4.23 but it errorred on ./configure

checking which gecko to use...
configure: error: No gecko found; you may need to adjust PKG_CONFIG_PATH or install a mozilla/firefox/xulrunner -devel package

Then I backtraced Liferea. I added the backtrace as attachment. It reads:

[...]
#22 0xb55cb20b in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1b3pre/libxul.so

I uninstalled Firefox 3.1 but that didn't work. Then I uninstalled xulrunner-1.9.1 and Liferea was back.

I think this includes all useful information.

Good luck

[Foppe Hemminga (foppe)]

Last update:
Liferea works with xulrunner-1.9.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 (on my install)
not with
xulrunner-.1.9.1~b3~hg20090103r22626+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~fta4~intrepid
not with
xulrunner-1.9.2~a1~hg20090106r23390+nobinonly=0ubuntu1~fta1~intrepid
(all versions from current repo's as of 01-07-2009)

Status changed from Incomplete to Confirmed

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Downgrading to High importance as this is caused by using external packages. Still something we should fix.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

This is bug 295490.