1314600 - In ubuntu 16.04 with gnome the firefox getting crashed with error Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 517: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `ELFW(R_TYPE) (reloc->r_info) == R_X86_64_RELATIVE' failed!

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[praveenm]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2016-11-02 10-56-11.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36

Comment 1

[Stéphane Gourichon]

# Symptom

Same here. Ubuntu 16.04 
Kernel 4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 26 19:39:52 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Exact error message copy-pasted from terminal:

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 517: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `ELFW(R_TYPE) (reloc->r_info) == R_X86_64_RELATIVE' failed!

# Actions attempted

* Quitting already opened instance of Firefox did not solve.
* Logging out then in did not solve.
* Other accounts on same machine were affected, too.
* Asking aptitude to reinstall the "firefox" package solved the problem.

# Additional information

Package version is firefox 50.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04 

I commented here because I saw this bug report. Perhaps this should be reported on Ubuntu Launchpad instead. Anyway, since problem is fixed and package reinstallation probably removed possibility of tracking the actual cause, there's little point in allocating more time to it.

Thank you.

Comment 2

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

(In reply to Stéphane Gourichon from comment #1)
> since problem is fixed and
> package reinstallation probably removed possibility of tracking the actual
> cause, there's little point in allocating more time to it.
> 
> Thank you.

Closing this issue due to the comment above. Please reopen if this issue persists.