1378896 - The open tab in each open FF window shows a "tab crashed" message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1342556

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170607123825

Steps to reproduce:

Had perhaps 10 FF windows open with mulitiple tabs in each window.


Actual results:

When I logged in this morning the open (visible) tab in each FF window showed the "tab crashed" message.


Expected results:

The tabs content should have been there rather than the "tab crashed" message.

Comment 1

[Doug Hockin]

52.2.0 version, 32 bit build, Firefox ESR

Comment 2

[Loic]

If you have no steps to reproduce to provide, it'll be hard to find the cause of this crash unluckily.

Do you have a crash report in about:crashes?

Comment 3

[Doug Hockin]

Firefox 52.2.0esr Crash Report [@ PLDHashTable::Add | TraversalTracer::onChild ]
ID: efb954f7-057d-4a78-a964-12b5b0170707
Signature: PLDHashTable::Add | TraversalTracer::onChild

I didn't know that "about:crashes" existed. Thanks for the info.

For some reason I'm no longer asked if I want to upload crashes, so that one and many more were in the "not uploaded" section. Apparently opening one in that section automatically uploads it without saying it's doing that, which is fine with me now that I know it happens.

Comment 4

[Erik Denny]

I have been experiencing the same issue since doing a manual yum update on Centos 7.  I upgraded (manual download since I can't load any tabs!) to 54.0.1 and have the same issue, but with different errors.

I tried to open a bugzilla report but to say it's not a friendly process is an understatement.  It reports on the 54 failures-
crash ID-388flecb-2a50-4e2f-98eb-57ebf0170710
Suspects IPCError-browser | shutdownkillall

Looks like libc and libxcb are causing the problem.

I can provide versions of all installed components.

-E

Comment 5

[u554753]

Hi Doug, 

Do you remember what websites/windows you had open that could have triggered this crash?

Comment 6

[Doug Hockin]

Nope. We're talking lots of windows with lots of tabs in each one. I doubt it had anything to do with a particular website, but I could be wrong, since the error showed up in the visible tab in each and every window. Though I suppose it could have been putting a message from a crash of one tab somewhere into the visible tab in every window?

It happened "overnight", i.e. it was there when I logged back in first thing in the morning, but wasn't there when I logged off the day before.

Comment 7

[Doug Hockin]

Sorry I didn't copy the message down, but I'm pretty sure there wasn't any info in the message about which website caused the crash. I know the message was identical in every window.

Comment 8

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

As literally reported, this is expected. If the content process is crashing, your open tabs will reflect the fact that the content process has crashed. Core issue here is that something's causing it to crash, and crashes are bad.


(In reply to Doug Hockin from comment #3)

> ID: efb954f7-057d-4a78-a964-12b5b0170707
> Signature: PLDHashTable::Add | TraversalTracer::onChild

bp-efb954f7-057d-4a78-a964-12b5b0170707

Likely a dupe of topcrash bug 1342556?

(In reply to Erik Denny from comment #4)
> crash ID-388flecb-2a50-4e2f-98eb-57ebf0170710
> Suspects IPCError-browser | shutdownkillall

bp-388f1ecb-2a50-4e2f-98eb-57ebf0170710

This sounds like a different issue. If you can still reproduce, file a new bug.

Comment 9

[Selena Deckelmann :selenamarie :selena]

Hey Erik, 

If you are able to reproduce, please file a new bug against the crash: 

> crash ID-388flecb-2a50-4e2f-98eb-57ebf0170710
> Suspects IPCError-browser | shutdownkillall

Thanks!

Closing this as a dupe. Thanks for reporting!

Comment 10

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Moving from Core::Untriaged to Core::General https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407598