Firefox segfault on IcedTeaPlugin.so

[Jeff Sharpe]

Binary package hint: firefox

Mozilla Firefox segfaults every time I open it. Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64.

Firefox deb version: 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1

jeff@Gimli:~$ uname -a
Linux Gimli 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:45:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Mozilla Crash Reporter details:

Add-ons: <email address hidden>:3.6,<email address hidden>:3.6,<email address hidden>:3.6,<email address hidden>:3.6,<email address hidden>:0.9rc2,{a03390fe-612a-4cfb-9861-ce9369d54a0b}:0.1.1,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.12
BuildID: 20101027124735
CrashTime: 1290205595
EMCheckCompatibility: true
FramePoisonBase: 7ffffffff0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1289869371
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: default
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 273
StartupTime: 1290205560
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: about:blank
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.6.12

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Running Firefox with debug symbols:

jeff@Gimli:~$ firefox --debug
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/run-mozilla.sh -g /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/plugins:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/components:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12
          LIBPATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12:/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
/usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin -x /tmp/mozargs.DShj7Y
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Reading symbols from /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-bin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7fffe79ff710 (LWP 6039)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe6ffa710 (LWP 6040)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe63f1710 (LWP 6041)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe59e6710 (LWP 6042)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe51e5710 (LWP 6043)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe42ff710 (LWP 6044)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe30c4710 (LWP 6045)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdd1e7710 (LWP 6048)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc5dd710 (LWP 6049)]
[Thread 0x7fffdc5dd710 (LWP 6049) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc5dd710 (LWP 6050)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdb382710 (LWP 6051)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdab81710 (LWP 6052)]
Attempting to load the system libmoon

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffd4a56fd5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
(gdb) c
Continuing.
[Thread 0x7fffdab81710 (LWP 6052) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffdb382710 (LWP 6051) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffdc5dd710 (LWP 6050) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffdd1e7710 (LWP 6048) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe30c4710 (LWP 6045) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe42ff710 (LWP 6044) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe51e5710 (LWP 6043) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe59e6710 (LWP 6042) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe63f1710 (LWP 6041) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe79ff710 (LWP 6039) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffe6ffa710 (LWP 6040) exited]

Program exited with code 013.

This is repeatable, happens every attempt at opening Firefox.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 19 14:27:32 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /bin/dash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Jeff Sharpe (jeffsharpe)]

Work around is, obviously, to remove the icedtea6-plugin. Doing this, browser appears fine.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The workaround is to actually remove the moonlight plugin if you've got it installed, and then the icedtea plugin will work fine.

We get a lot of these reports

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This was fixed a while ago