1446113 - Startup crash in NS_InitXPCOM2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1445524

(Core :: JavaScript: Internationalization API, defect, P1)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

This bug was filed from the Socorro interface and is
report bp-cb093fb4-5788-4624-b780-81e0f0180315.
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Mac crash seen while looking at 59 release crash stats: http://bit.ly/2piOPoH. Present in 58.0.2 but in smaller numbers. Comments mention crashing after an update. Moz crash reason: u_init() failed

Top 6 frames of crashing thread:

0 libmozglue.dylib MOZ_CrashOOL mfbt/Assertions.cpp:33
1 XUL NS_InitXPCOM2 xpcom/build/XPCOMInit.cpp:673
2 XUL XREMain::XRE_main toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:1567
3 XUL XRE_main toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:4933
4 firefox main browser/app/nsBrowserApp.cpp:231
5 firefox start 

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Comment 1

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

It sounds like this is related to the initialization of the internationalization library.

Comment 2

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

I'd lay fair odds on folding ICU's data file directly into the binary fixing, or at least ameliorating, this.  But just knowing u_init failed says effectively nothing to help with debugging whatever's specifically happening here.

Comment 3

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

Jeff, is there a bug for that? How can we get a better error message when this occurs?

Comment 4

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

Found it, bug 1445524. Hmm. Leaving this open as a P1.

Comment 5

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

Jeff, was this in fact fixed as foretold in comment 2? Is it too early to tell? etc.

Comment 6

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Too early, seems like.  I'd give it a week or two then loop back.

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

The desktop crashes appear to be gone as of the 3-28 build. There are still a few Fennec crashes in nightly, including one crash in 20180403100100.

Comment 8

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

I closed this prematurely. Still investigating.

Comment 9

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

We still have some crashes on Beta and Nightly with this signature and moz_crash_reason= "u_init() failed": https://bit.ly/2Lrjiew

However, the number of crahes is way down from the spike in 58, so closing this one.