255434 - /usr/local/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 423: 18662 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James Lockie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040713
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040713

Can't start most recent nightly on Linux.
It immediately srg faults.

Talkback ID: TB548043Z


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try and run firefox
Actual Results:  
Segmentation fault.


Expected Results:  
It should run.

Comment 1

[James Lockie]

Same thing happens with the latest trunk CVS for thunderbird:

$ thunderbird
/usr/local/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 423: 21808 Segmentation fault     
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Comment 2

[Stef van der Made]

I'm seeing the same problem on the GTK mozilla builds example build 20040905. It
looks to be related to the browser componetns

In the console of my X session I see these messages
(Gecko:25824): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from `GdkWindow' to `GtkWindow'

(Gecko:25824): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwindow.c: line 1941
(gtk_window_set_transient_for__internal_alias): assertion `parent == NULL ||
GTK_IS_WINDOW (parent)' failed
/usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 423: 25824 Segmentation fault     
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}
sending back success status; version 5
Window manager warning: Working around an application which called
XSetInputFocus (None) or with RevertToNone instead of RevertToPointerRoot, this
is a minor bug in some application. If you can figure out which application
causes this please report it as a bug against that application.
cd

Comment 3

[Krzysiek]

I have the same problem on my SuSE 9.1. It crashes after wisiting home.pl ang puts:
./run-mozilla.sh: line xxx: xxxx Segmentation fault...

Comment 4

[Krzysiek]

There is problem with freetype2.
I've installed freetype2 without Bytecode interpreter and ff does not crash.
There is problem with fonts because fonts are replaced by some other signs.

Comment 5

[Will Keaney]

FF did the same for me, even as of 1.6a1.  I found that, because I ran the
installer with 'sudo' and it automatically launched FF when finished, it changed
ownership on some of the files in ~/.mozilla/ to root:root. After 'chown -R
uname:users ~/.mozilla', FF runs fine for me without messing about with freetype2.

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I have no problem starting recent nightlies on Linux. I'm going to resolve this as WFM. If you have specific problems, please file new bugs on each issue. This bug, as filed, is WFM.