firefox-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in _init()

[Šimánek]

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox

Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 dev branch

firefox:
  Installed: 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Firefox crashes on attempting to load certain pages. As it turns out, this is most web pages.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Wed Mar 24 22:31:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
 firefox-branding 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox-bin
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb7890422 <__kernel_vsyscall+2>: ret
 PC (0xb7890422) ok
 destination "(%esp)" (0xbfa88cec) ok
 SP (0xbfa88cec) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 _init ()
 ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
 ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Title: firefox-bin crashed with SIGSEGV in _init()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1382): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (Do:1411): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #545167, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Šimánek (jasonsimanek)]

Hi, I am not being allowed to see #545167, so I thought I would just add my additional feedback here.

After not seeing an automatic repair and removing my profile didn't have an effect, I resorted to reinstalling Firefox. That didn't help. Then I checked all of the automatic plugins (or possibly the ones that stayed installed from my previous setup). I removed Flash and Moonlight. The browser was suddenly running perfect again. I installed the Flash plugin directly from Adobe's site and the browser continues to be free of the problem I was encountering earlier. I think this is a bug in Moonlight, but as I can't recall having a need for that plugin my problem is solved. I apologize for not checking all of this earlier.