1465604 - Firefox crashes, either completely or just a tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Robert Heller]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20180516152708

Steps to reproduce:

Just running firefox and it crashes while loading the home page.  This happens *everytime*.  I have sent crash reports, but it does not seem to every get fixed.  This is on a Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit) workstation with NFS mounted /usr and /home file systems (/ is a ramdisk copied at boot time from a NFS mounted file system).  The machine (one of 9 such machines) is booted using DRBL.


Actual results:

Firefox crashes and pops up the crash report dialog.


Expected results:

The home page should have been displayed.

Comment 1

[Robert Heller]

OK, I have throughly confirmed that the problem *only* occurs when running in DRBL boot using NFS mounted file systems.  When I boot the machines using a local copy of the O/S (Ubuntu 14.04) with a local /home file systems (all file systems mounted from the local internal disk), Firefox 60.1 works just fine.  No crashing or any other weirdnesses.  Chromium also works as expected.  But on at any machine that booted off the network with NFS mounted file system, firefox 60.1 does not work, nor does chrome or chromium.

Comment 2

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Hey Robert Heller,

Thank you for the report. I will set the issue to a component in order to involve the development team in a proper review.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Can you give us the crash reports from about:crashes?

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Closing as incomplete. Please re-open if you can provide the crash details.