linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

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Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:27:53 -0800
From:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	Justin Madru <jdm64@...ab.com>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

Justin Madru wrote:
> Justin Madru wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is the weirdest crash I've come across related to an rc kernel.
>> First I tested .29-rc1 when it came out and firefox crashed only when 
>> clicking on certain links.
>> Now I updated my tree and compiled another kernel. This time firefox 
>> crashes right after it finishes loading my homepage.
>> This happens every time, and has never happened on any kernel before.
>>
>> I did a strace of firefox and these are the last few lines that are 
>> always present before it crashes:
>>
>> gettimeofday({1232129663, 344658}, NULL) = 0
>> gettimeofday({1232129663, 351300}, NULL) = 0
>> open(\"/home/justin/.mailcap\", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No 
>> such file or directory)
>> time(NULL)                              = 1232129663
>> stat64(\"/home/justin/.gnome2/vfs/modules\", 0xbfec4efc) = -1 ENOENT 
>> (No such file or directory)
>> stat64(\"/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules\", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, 
>> st_size=128, ...}) = 0
>> geteuid32()                             = 1000
>> getegid32()                             = 1000
>> getuid32()                              = 1000
>> tgkill(4615, 4642, SIGRT_1upeek: ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER,4615,44,0): 
>> No such process
>>
>> So far I've tried other programs, but I haven't seen any other crashes.
>> More information about my computer (including: dmesg, config, 
>> sysinfo) can be found at:
>> http://jdserver.homelinux.org/bugreports/
>>
>>
> I just tested on -rc2 and still firefox crashes upon finishing loading 
> the homepage.
> I've not had this problem with a pre-29 kernel.
>
> Justin Madru
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I'm not seeing this with firefox over here.
The setup I have is the latest beta,
located in /usr/lib/firefox/ with a soft link to /usr/bin/
I don't have gnome2 vfs installed though.
just a bare firefox with 2 plugins(flash,null)
located in /.mozilla/plugins/
for restorecon.

not sure what distro you have, but with ubuntu
I noticed a quit a bit of other links created.
that is installing through apt-get, rather
just downloading the source and putting it wherever.

regards;

Justin P. Mattock
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