176239 - crashes (exit 11) on various actions

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Lancelot Pecquet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

It happened twice: first time was while trying to "Reply-to" an email: the
whole Mozilla exit 11; as I imported some old hacked .mozilla file, I thought
rebuilding it might be a good idea. I removed all .msf, popstate.dat, host.dat
from the mail and news files, hoping that they would be correctly regenerated.
Note that I've been too lazy to clean by hand my bookmarks.html.
It worked for a little while but when I went to Edit/Preferences with a
keyboard shortcut and Mozilla crashed again (Exit 11). The problem remained
once or twice using the mouse when Edit/Preferences was invoked but now seems
to work: there's something unstable but I'm afraid not to be able to be more
precise: good luck...



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

Please try a newer version.  Many of the bugs in 1.1 have been already fixed. 
Please grab one of the talkback builds (the "installer" .gz ones) and if you can
still reproduce this, send in a talkback report and then give the talkback ID here.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 177107 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Lancelot Pecquet]

With nightly build:

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021027
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021027

I clicked on Create a new Account and Moz freezes. 
I killed -9 all mozilla-bin and the problems remains
when I used the menu Edit Preferences to add an account. The only
way to get a mozilla that works is to move my .mozilla somewhere
else and to lauch it as if it was a first time.

Comment 4

[Lancelot Pecquet]

Attachment: strace -o at crash

I strace -o Mozilla, one can see that it freezes at the bottom (then I killed
it)

Comment 5

[Lancelot Pecquet]

Attachment: top at crash

top when Mozilla freezes. The memory need was increasing indefinitely. I killed

it before my machine could feel too bad.

Comment 6

[Danek Duvall]

Attachment: Browser crashes when printing this file

Mozilla, built 2003021815 on Solaris, shows this behavior as well when trying
to print this html file.  I've tried to trim it down as much as possible, but
it seems that it's the structure that's important, as well as some of the
spacing.  I see the same problem with 2003022500 on Linux, as well as an older,
December build, on Solaris.  I'm not sure if it's the same bug, but the bug
synopsis is general enough ...

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

Lancelot: the problem you were seeing was probably bug 169777.  could you try
another new build and see if it works (that bug and at least one related bug
have been fixed).  The 1.3 branch builds should be relatively stable (trunk
builds are not currently stable).
http://download.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.3/

Danek: the problem you are seeing appears to be quite different and I can
reproduce it.  Please file a new bug under printing.

Comment 8

[Danek Duvall]

Thanks.  See bug 195025.

Comment 9

[Mike McCabe]

Mozilla dies abruptly with exit 11 while loading certain URLs -

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/074/living/_Normal_melodrama_bends_gender_truth+.shtml

Built from scratch, MOZILLA_1_3_RELEASE tag, on Linux.  I noticed this problem
in the betas too.

Mike

Comment 10

[Mike McCabe]

The crash I reported does not occur with the released version, but in my own build.

It seems due to the combination of xft with optimization.  I've tracked it to
the combination of the .mozconfig build options --enable-xft and
--enable-optimize=-O3.  The crash doesn't occur with --enable-optimize=-O2.

Removing URL; I'm not sure that it's relevant to the original bug as filed.

Comment 11

[Mike McCabe]

I've filed bug 198767 for the above xft + -O3 problem.

Comment 12

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

..no open bug left here