152094 - Random crashes in Mozilla 0.9.9 and 1.0

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Shannon Menkveld]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux alpha; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020414
Debian/0.9.9-6
BuildID:    20020414

I have experienced random crashes in Mozilla 0.9.9 (debian package, from Woody)
and Mozilla 1.0 (built from source, with optimizations for small size) on my
Alpha 633 (Ruffian).  There appears to be no consistency whatsoever, with
respect to web pages or open apps when the crash occurs. X/KDE return no
segfault mesages, and I cannot find a core file.  If I restart Mozilla and go to
the same page that it just crashed on, it works fine.  I have not experienced
this behavior on my x86 boxes, in Win98 or Debian 2.2 or 3.0

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
Random failure

Actual Results:  Random Failure

Expected Results:  Mozilla 1.0 should be stable on this architecture, especially
when built from source.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

We can't fix this without a stack trace..
We have Talkback on X86 Linux, MAC or win32 to find those random crashes.
Could be 64Bit problem or a compiler problem. (with compiler options do you used ?)

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

I believe the debian package uses the RPM startup script and one of the first
things it does is to limit core size to zero. (ulimit -c 0).  remove that and
you should get core files

mozilla 1.0 will not dump core because of bug 148453.  If you want a core file
with 1.0 (or beyond), you'll have to hack out the signal handlers in
nsProfileLock::Lock in nsProfileAccess.cpp (this will leave behind stale lock
files whenever you crash, but you'll get core files).

beyond that... run Mozilla under gdb.  :)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

s/with Compiler/which Compiler

Comment 4

[timeless]

there's no reason to expect mozilla to be more stable when you build from source.

please attach a stacktrace, this bug is not useful without one.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

marking worksforme.  I have been running 1.1 branch (on Linux-Alpha) for a while
with no major problems.