firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()

[Karol Hevessy]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

On my Intrepid alpha-6, firefox sometimes closes for no apparent reason and without error message. This time however it crashed with an error message.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox http://www.alfacomp.cz/php/product.php?eid=105140004000000H3M
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sk_SK.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 2.6.27-4-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Please, try to run firefox using a clean profile in order to see if the problem comes from one of your extension: firefox -safe-mode

It your problem still occurs, try to obtain a backtrace by following the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs and http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/Details.

Set to incomplete until we have more a backtrace or more info.

[Karol Hevessy (khevessy)]

After update the problem never occurred so far.

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Ok, so set to invalid.

[arno_b (arno.b)]

bvidinli_ehcp > Why did you set to confirm the report?

[Rubén Parra (rubenxparra)]

En 8.10 Released, con AMD 64: Fallo de segmentación (core dumped)
"Released in 8.10, with AMD 64: Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Rubén > can you try to get a backtrace as I described into a post above please.

[Ruben Romero (huayra)]

It happened when I was trying to send another bug (#271636).

[Doru Horișco (doruhushhush)]

I receive this message:
"firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()"
but Firefox is working, it didn't stop.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Doru, yes, this bug will often happen when Firefox is already open.

[moob (milan-jaros-gmail)]

I can confirm Doru's and Ruben's report. Same here.

[Luca Frosini (lucafrosini)]

I confirm too Duru's report.
I receive the message but firefox continue to work properly.

[VladNistor (vladnistor)]

I am also confirming the Doru's report, Apport says the error occured but firefox never closed but in fact had just opened. I had just opened the NinjaVideo.net applet before the error occured [might be related].

[Fotis Stefanidis (fotios)]

I confirm the report.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Ruben, thanks for submitting your backtrace! However, it is missing debug symbols. Did you install the *-dbgsym packages as listed on the Mozilla Bugs page? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#Crashes If so, let us know; we may need to install some others that are causing this crash.

Can anyone else also provide a backtrace so we can compare them?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:07:04PM -0000, VladNistor wrote:
> I am also confirming the Doru's report, Apport says the error occured
> but firefox never closed but in fact had just opened. I had just opened
> the NinjaVideo.net applet before the error occured [might be related].
>

maybe its the "remote client" crashing here. please do the following
in a terminal:

 env > /tmp/env.txt

and attach /tmp/env.txt to this bug.

 - Alexander

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu (lucian.grijincu)]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Alexander Sack <email address hidden> wrote:
> env > /tmp/env.txt

[VladNistor (vladnistor)]

I'd like to say that this occurred again now as I booted and opened firefox. I'm attaching the env.txt file.

[Laskaris (taylan-bahar)]

Thank u very much.

--
Taylan Bahar

[Doru Horișco (doruhushhush)]

I've install the debug symbols (don't know if there are all of them, I have no complain).
The crash occured when a Firefox session is already open and I follow an external link
from Update manager to read about a bug report.
It is like the link try to open a new firefox session but the system already has a firefox
session open. Maybe the external link should check first if a firefox session is already open.
I attach the dbg report (don't know if is complete).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

bug 278095