firefox crashed with SIGSEGV when watching flash videos

[Viperfang]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Fire fox crashed after watching 3 youtube videos... probably a memory leak in flash.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Apr 12 02:08:59 2008
Disassembly: 0xb7f4b410:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/hostname/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Stacktrace: #0 0xb7f4b410 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Title: firefox crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? ()

[Kai Stempfle (kai-stempfle)]

Confirmed:

Test case:
open firefox, go to www.youtube.com and watch some videos. Firefox will eventually crash with SIGSEGV in __kernel_vsyscall().

[Kai Stempfle (kai-stempfle)]

Unfortunately no debugging symbols available for firefox-3.0...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report didn't yield the required information. Please go ahead and submit a new crash report if it crashed again with the latest available package. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Sebastian Breier (tomcat42)]

Firefox: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
Flash: 9.0.124.0ubuntu2

Can you guys check this again with the release candidate?
I had exactly the same problem (didn't reply because I had no additional information, only subscribed), but with the RC, it's gone.
I just watched a couple of vids on YouTube, opened some flash websites, no crashes at all.

Remember to create a new Firefox profile just to be safe.

[Sebastian Breier (tomcat42)]

I guess it's fixed then. ;)

[OpenContrail Admin (ci-admin-f)]

Review in progress for https://review.opencontrail.org/47807
Submitter: Maciej Jagiello (<email address hidden>)