firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()

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Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

zobby04 amd64 alpha testing

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/firefox http://www.tvbrowser.org/downloads-mainmenu-5/tv-browser-mainmenu-6.html
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
StacktraceTop:
 getenv () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
 exit () from /lib/libc.so.6
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: firefox crashed with SIGSEGV in getenv()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:getenv () from /lib/libc.so.6
spi_atk_bridge_exit_func () at bridge.c:643
exit () from /lib/libc.so.6
__libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? ()

[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, http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/Details and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

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

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

This is happening for me too. If it persists I'll try in safe mode.

[arno_b (arno.b)]

So please, try to get a backtrace too.

[arno_b (arno.b)]

And what did you do to get a crash?

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Arnaud Blouin <email address hidden> wrote:
> And what did you do to get a crash?

It just spontaneously appears sometimes. Interestingly, my browser
session does not crash - it must be some forked-off process that is
crashing.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

[Richard Jonsson (richard-jonsson-bredband)]

I got this with firefox still alive afterwards!? I don't get it at all. Moments earlier npviewer crashed, but video (youtube) played anyway.. wasn't aware it could recover like that.

[Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz)]

I receive this error when clicking on links in xchat. Like Martin and Richard, the browser does not crash and continues to function normally.

[Pasku (pasku)]

I get this seg fault sometimes when clicking on links in liferea. Like others the browser doesn't crash.

I attached a a backtrace from an apport crash report.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

do we know how lifereas code looks like that starts a browser to open a link?

[Pasku (pasku)]

I don't know how exactly looks like liferea code to open a link, but if you run liferea with --debug-all, or debug-gui, you get a message like this:

GUI: Running the browser-remote async command 'gnome-open http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml'

My liferea external browser preferences are set to "Browser: GNOME Default Browser" and "Open link in: Browser default".

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

bug 278095