204585 - Mozilla 1.3 does not start up: Segmentation fault

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195601

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alberto Marchamalo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.3

I have been using Mozilla 1.3 without problems during at least one month and now
when I try to start Mozilla I get this error

[alberto@peggy alberto]$ /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla &
[1] 1312
[alberto@peggy alberto]$ /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 454:  1318
Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

[1]+  Exit 139                /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1./usr/local/mozilla/mozilla &
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla does not start up

Expected Results:  
Tostart up and work correctly

Comment 1

[Mitch]

Can you try with a new profile ? (run mozilla with -P flag and create a new
profile)

Or else, provide a stacktrace of the crash.

cd to the mozilla directory and run

         LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` gdb mozilla-bin

when you are in gdb type 'run' and return, when it give you a segmentation
fault, type 'bt' (for backtrace) and then return.

Comment 2

[Alberto Marchamalo]

Dave I did what you told me and:

1) The answer is the same when I use the -P flag, that is: Segmentation fault
2) The backtrace result is this, what should I do now?

[alberto@peggy alberto]$ cd /usr/local/mozilla/
[alberto@peggy mozilla]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd` gdb mozilla-bin
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin 
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 16384 (LWP 1298)]
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 1298)]
0x400d3b0d in pthread_mutex_init () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x400d3b0d in pthread_mutex_init () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#1  0x4102e768 in __FCDeleteKey () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/talkback/talkback.so
#2  0x4101b62e in NSGetModule () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/talkback/talkback.so
#3  0x4101f414 in NSGetModule () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/talkback/talkback.so
#4  0x4101f567 in __FCInitialize () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/talkback/talkback.so
#5  0x400c6edb in NSGetModule () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/libqfaservices.so
#6  0x400c7376 in NSGetModule () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/libqfaservices.so
#7  0x400c73cb in FCInitialize () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/libqfaservices.so
#8  0x400c68d4 in nsQfaServicesImpl::StartService () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/libqfaservices.so
#9  0x400c69a3 in nsQfaServicesImpl::Observe () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/libqfaservices.so
#10 0x40747c55 in NSGetModule () from
/usr/local/mozilla/components/libembedcomponents.so
#11 0x080578b6 in getCountry ()
#12 0x080584d5 in main ()
#13 0x420158f7 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6

Comment 3

[Mitch]

And you haven't upgraded anything on your system (like any libs) since
this started happening ?

What's wierd is that the crash seems to be happening in the talkback module
which is the crash reporting feature of mozilla. 

Have you had any crashes/unscheduled powerouts on your system which could lead
to fs corruption that may explain the talkback module being damaged ? 

Whatever distro you have, i suggest removing the mozilla package and
reinstalling. Fear not, your user profiles will persist so you shouldn't
lose anything you've already set up.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of bug 195601 (same stack)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195601 ***