1172893 - Firefox crashes with assertion failure when attempting to render www.baen.com

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1172600

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Roy Trubshaw]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150525141253

Steps to reproduce:

- Create clean profile with firefox -P
- Use clean profile
- Navigate to http://www.baenbooks.com



Actual results:

- Firefox crashes with the following warning and messages on the terminal:
$ firefox -P
(firefox:7961): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2275: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x7f19fff8b000'
(firefox:7961): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:2275: signal `autoplug-sort' is invalid for instance `0x7f19fff8b000'
(firefox:7961): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_plugin_feature_get_name: assertion `GST_IS_PLUGIN_FEATURE (feature)' failed

Crash reporter dialogue appears.


Expected results:

Page should be rendered with no crash (it did in previous versions of firefox)

Comment 1

[Roy Trubshaw]

Raw troubleshooting data:
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    "updateChannel": "release",
    "supportURL": "https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/38.0.5/Linux/en-GB/",
    "numTotalWindows": 1,
    "numRemoteWindows": 0,
    "remoteAutoStart": false
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        "date": 1433780211000,
        "pending": false
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  "modifiedPreferences": {
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    "browser.cache.frecency_experiment": 1,
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    "browser.download.importedFromSqlite": true,
    "browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion": 7,
    "browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone": "38.0.5",
    "browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID": "20150525141253",
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    "numAcceleratedWindowsMessage": [
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    "adapterDescription": "Mesa Project -- Software Rasterizer",
    "adapterVendorID": "Mesa Project",
    "adapterDeviceID": "Software Rasterizer",
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    "adapterDrivers": "",
    "driverVersion": "2.1 Mesa 10.1.2",
    "driverDate": "",
    "webglRendererMessage": [
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    "info": {
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      "AzureFallbackCanvasBackend": "none",
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  "javaScript": {
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      "version": "3.18.1 Basic ECC"
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      "version": "3.18.1 Basic ECC"
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  },
  "userJS": {
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}

Comment 2

[Roy Trubshaw]

Sorry URL should be:
http://www.baen.com/

Comment 3

[Loic]

Dupe of bug 1164103?

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Duping to the bug where we're tracking these gstreamer-using crashes.