1271748 - Crashes on start: ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[Kuba Orlik]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/601.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/601.1 Ubuntu/15.10 (3.16.3-1ubuntu1) Epiphany/3.16.3

Steps to reproduce:

Start the firefox application


Actual results:

The application doesn't start


Expected results:

The application should open up

Comment 1

[nico.ehrhardt]

I think I am having the same issue.

OS: 4.4.0-22-generic #39-Ubuntu x86_64 GNU/Linux
Firefox (Developer): 48.0a2 SHA in error message I believe
Repos: http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora/ubuntu

Reproducing:
me@laptop $ firefox --new-instance
[4290] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
[4290] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
[1]    4290 segmentation fault  firefox --new-instance

This error starting happening after last update so I am pretty certain a decent amount of devs on that repos will be affected.

Comment 2

[Kuba Orlik]

Some more information: I'm on Ubuntu 15.10.
Here's the coredump file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1142760/static/core

Comment 3

[geter0feav]

Same error for me.

OS : 4.4.0-22-generic #39-Ubuntu x86_64 GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 16.04)

Firefox version : Mozilla Firefox 48.0a2 from ppa "ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora" (Developper Edition)

When I try to launch Firefox in command line :

[5617] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
[5617] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Comment 4

[alanhdu]

I've also run into this today (exact same info and error message as above):

OS: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64, Ubuntu 16.04
Firefox Version: firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685 from "ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora"

$ firefox
[16492] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
[16492] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x00005555555591b6 in mozalloc_abort(char const*) ()
#1  0x00007fffe8641c73 in NS_DebugBreak () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#2  0x00007fffe869c4cd in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#3  0x00007fffea0296d2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#4  0x00007fffea02d945 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#5  0x00007fffea02db94 in XRE_main () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
#6  0x00005555555590c4 in ?? ()
#7  0x000055555555877a in ?? ()
#8  0x00007ffff6d6c830 in __libc_start_main (main=0x5555555586c0, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdf08, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, 
    rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffdef8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:291
#9  0x0000555555558899 in _start ()

Comment 5

[alanhdu]

Core dump: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2336352/coredump
> I've also run into this today (exact same info and error message as above):
> 
> OS: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64, Ubuntu 16.04
> Firefox Version: firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685 from
> "ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora"
> 
> $ firefox
> [16492] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file
> /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/
> XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
> [16492] ###!!! ABORT: JS_InitWithFailureDiagnostic: u_init() failed: file
> /build/firefox-HNVPVM/firefox-48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685/xpcom/build/
> XPCOMInit.cpp, line 709
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0x00005555555591b6 in mozalloc_abort(char const*) ()
> #1  0x00007fffe8641c73 in NS_DebugBreak () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #2  0x00007fffe869c4cd in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #3  0x00007fffea0296d2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #4  0x00007fffea02d945 in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #5  0x00007fffea02db94 in XRE_main () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #6  0x00005555555590c4 in ?? ()
> #7  0x000055555555877a in ?? ()
> #8  0x00007ffff6d6c830 in __libc_start_main (main=0x5555555586c0, argc=1,
> argv=0x7fffffffdf08, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, 
>     rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffdef8) at
> ../csu/libc-start.c:291
> #9  0x0000555555558899 in _start ()

Comment 6

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo] (I'm baaaaaaack...)]

Between what dates, or particular Firefox revisions, or at least particular Ubuntu packagings that we could hopefully map back to particular Firefox revisions, did this start occurring?  We haven't changed much about Intl lately, excepting various build-system and packaging changes to it, so a regression range, even one that's a couple weeks large or something, would be very helpful.

Comment 7

[David Redondo]

(In reply to Jeff Walden [:Waldo] (remove +bmo to email) from comment #6)
> Between what dates, or particular Firefox revisions, or at least particular
> Ubuntu packagings that we could hopefully map back to particular Firefox
> revisions, did this start occurring?  We haven't changed much about Intl
> lately, excepting various build-system and packaging changes to it, so a
> regression range, even one that's a couple weeks large or something, would
> be very helpful.
For me it started happening today as I upgraded firefox from the Aurora-ppa.

>Entpacken von firefox (48.0~a2~hg20160509r318685-0ubuntu1~umd1) über (47.0~a2~hg20160412r310537-0ubuntu1~umd1)

Comment 8

[Kuba Orlik]

Same here. Broken right after updating to 48.0a2. 

I've manually downloaded the binaries for this version from Mozilla's website and they don't crash.

Comment 9

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo] (I'm baaaaaaack...)]

My suspicion is that this is a case of bug 1262731, now long since fixed.  If this happens again, please file a new bug on it -- if there are current instances, given what changed in bug 1262731, it'd probably be an entirely different bug (even if the symptom was the same).

Comment 10

[:Ms2ger (⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Let's call this wfm, for lack of a better resolution.