1165883 - Firefox 38.0.1 repeatedly crashes in Linux (at Gmail; GStreamer in the sig)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1145230

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Barun Saha]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.65 Safari/535.11

Steps to reproduce:

1. Type in terminal: firefox -safe-mode
2. Open tabs and browse URLs
3. Open GMail (https://mail.google.com)



Actual results:

After login to GMail (step # 3 above), the list of emails were shown. But shortly afterwards, Firefox crashed. Following messages were displayed in the terminal.


firefox -safe-mode 

** (firefox:16029): CRITICAL **: gst_app_src_set_size: assertion `GST_IS_APP_SRC (appsrc)' failed

(firefox:16029): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x9f687740'

(firefox:16029): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x9f687740'

** (firefox:16029): CRITICAL **: gst_app_src_set_size: assertion `GST_IS_APP_SRC (appsrc)' failed

(firefox:16029): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x92bba140'

(firefox:16029): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x92bba140'

** (firefox:16029): CRITICAL **: gst_app_src_set_size: assertion `GST_IS_APP_SRC (appsrc)' failed

(firefox:16029): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x92bba640'

(firefox:16029): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x92bba640'

(firefox:16029): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_plugin_feature_get_name: assertion `GST_IS_PLUGIN_FEATURE (feature)' failed



Expected results:

Firefox should not have crashed.

I'm not sure if opening GMail is the issue. However, I tried using Firefox several times, and apparently it crashed only after I opened GMail.

Comment 1

[Barun Saha]

The following is one of the crash reports submitted while in the safe mode: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/1266d12d-0993-4b04-911f-5d98b2150518

I have also tried creating a different profile, but still having the same behavior.

Comment 2

[Loic]

Could you add a few crash report links, please.

Comment 3

[Barun Saha]

Hi Loic,

Please find below two more links to crash reports.

(safe mode)
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/8f828dc0-9aee-48c5-9f82-d1be22150518

(normal mode)
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/cb7f0af7-e822-410b-9958-f1b892150518

Comment 4

[Loic]

According to the crash signatures, I'd say your issue is a dupe of bug 1164103.
To crash the browser, do you browse a video webpage?

Comment 5

[Barun Saha]

I did not browse any video webpage. As I mentioned earlier, the crash seems to occur sometime after I launch GMail in the browser. Again, I'm not claiming that is the root cause, but just something I doubted.

Also, I do not have any webcam with that system, if that matters anyhow.

Comment 6

[[:Aleksej]]

See also bug 935458, bug 1057867