261194 - firefox/installer linked against [libstdc++.so.5] crash when SCIM [libstdc++.so.6] @ free: invalid pointer mismatched allocators (gentoo, mandrake)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Wright]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Firefox1.0PR

After pressing 'next' in the installer it closes and the console reports: 
 
"SCIM: im_module_init 
 
free(): invalid pointer 0x8aa1928! 
free(): invalid pointer 0x8aa1900! 
 
./firefox-installer: line 56: 4626 segmentation fault ./${BINNAME}-bin $@" 
 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the tarball, extract, change to firefox-installer directory 
2. Run 'firefox-installer' 
3. Press 'next' 
 
Actual Results:  
The installer closes and in the console I recieve the error listed above.  

Expected Results:  
The installer should have continued to install Firefox. 

I attempted this install using a newly installed Mandrake 10 operating system. I 
have had no problem installing on other Linux (TurboLinux)/Windows (XP & ME) 
boxes.

Comment 1

[Arthur Cheung]

I have exactly the same problem, when I start firefox or firefox-bin, the
program exits with the console messages:

SCIM: im_module_init

free(): invalid pointer 0x8a77030!
free(): invalid pointer 0x8a77008!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
a1. Download the tarball, extract, change to firefox-installer directory 
a2. Run 'firefox-installer' 
a3. Press 'next' 

OR
b1. Download the tarball(with *-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz)
b2. Extract and change to that directory
b3. Go to directory with extracted file, and run 'firefox'

Information for my system:
Gentoo Linux: 2004.02
kernel version: 2.6.9
glibc: 2.3.4
SCIM: 1.0.1
GTK: 2.4.9

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like
Gecko)
> Build Identifier: Firefox1.0PR
> 
> After pressing 'next' in the installer it closes and the console reports: 
>  
> "SCIM: im_module_init 
>  
> free(): invalid pointer 0x8aa1928! 
> free(): invalid pointer 0x8aa1900! 
>  
> ./firefox-installer: line 56: 4626 segmentation fault ./${BINNAME}-bin $@" 
>  
>  
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Download the tarball, extract, change to firefox-installer directory 
> 2. Run 'firefox-installer' 
> 3. Press 'next' 
>  
> Actual Results:  
> The installer closes and in the console I recieve the error listed above.  
> 
> Expected Results:  
> The installer should have continued to install Firefox. 
> 
> I attempted this install using a newly installed Mandrake 10 operating system. I 
> have had no problem installing on other Linux (TurboLinux)/Windows (XP & ME) 
> boxes.

Comment 2

[Magick_Crow]

[root@localhost firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer
SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x832e810!
free(): invalid pointer 0x832e7e8!
./firefox-installer: line 56: 20737 Segmentation fault      ./${BINNAME}-bin $@
[root@localhost firefox-installer]#
Running Mandrake 10.1 community. The same as all the other comments.
If you can help please email me at [e-mail] I would love to use
firefox! Thanks.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Possible workarounds:

1) Install Firefox using urpmi, so that you get a version compatible with
Mandrake's particular collection of package versions.

2) From 
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=index&action=viewtopic&topic=10062&forum=1&8)

scim -f x11 -c simple -ns socket -d
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
./firefox-installer 

I have not tried this, use at your own risk!

Comment 4

[Kevin Wright]

After banging my head against the wall numerous times I reinstalled my entire
Mandrake distro and I could install Firefox without running into the crash
again. The problem is that I have no idea what I did differently during the
second install of Mandrake that helped avoid crashing during an install of Firefox.

It could be that during the Mandrake reinstall I made sure to include Mozilla in
case there were dependancy issues. However, I'm not sure if this had any real
effect to my success in installing Firefox. 



(In reply to comment #2)

> Running Mandrake 10.1 community. The same as all the other comments.
> If you can help please email me at [e-mail] I would love to use
> firefox! Thanks.
> 

Comment 5

[short]

(In reply to comment #4)
> After banging my head against the wall numerous times I reinstalled my entire
> Mandrake distro and I could install Firefox without running into the crash
> again. The problem is that I have no idea what I did differently during the
> second install of Mandrake that helped avoid crashing during an install of
Firefox.
My symptom is:
remove SCIM from locale setting and I am able to install and use FireFox..
However, if I turn on SCIM again, unfortunatly, this happen again when you want
to run you newly installed FireFox. 
So, If you are interested in how could that happen, try to set you Input method
to SCIM in LocaleDrake(User)

Comment 6

[fondacio]

I want to confirm that the same thing happened to me with the official Firefox
1.0 installer (downloaded from mozilla.org) on Mandrake 10.1 Official (download
edition). Workaround no. 2 from Comment #3 works for me too. Might it be worth
it to contact the author of SCIM?

Comment 7

[alinuxwolf]

confirming that removing scim 0.99.9 solves the problem. also solved the same
problem with thunderbird install. would lead me to believe there is something
common to both thunderbird, firefox, and scim.  Using mandrake 10.1

Read that mandrake 10.1 is loading scim too early with x, in the context of a
diffrent issue. Mandrake might be the common denominator here. can it be
confirmed in other distros?

Comment 8

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

*** Bug 268251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Is this still happening with the latest trunk builds on Mandrake machines?  I
don't have a mandrake os.

Comment 10

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 279482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 285277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 276648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Andrew Schultz]

see 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1118079&group_id=108454&atid=650539
and
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1153809&group_id=108454&atid=650539

the firefox is linked against an older libstdc++ (libstdc++.so.5), but the SCIM
installed on your system needs the current version (libstdc++.so.6).  Both
versions can't be loaded simultaneously.

the suite installer is statically linked against libstdc++.  I don't know if
that would help here or not.

Comment 14

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 277500 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 277499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 262277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 290684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 293317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Adam Geitgey]

Software: Mandriva 2005LE, scim, Firefox 1.5rc3

Reproduce:

1. Download Firefox 1.5 rc3 from mozilla.org
2. Run Firefox (with scim installed or enabled)
3. Crash

With scim installed:

[ageitgey@localhost firefox]$ catchsegv ./firefox | more
./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 26796 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
*** Segmentation fault
Register dump:

 EAX: b76c003c   EBX: b76bcf64   ECX: 00000001   EDX: 00000001
 ESI: b76c1b2c   EDI: 0000001f   EBP: bfffd884   ESP: bfffd83c

 EIP: b7687d6b   EFLAGS: 00010202

 CS: 0073   DS: 007b   ES: 007b   FS: 0000   GS: 0033   SS: 007b

 Trap: 0000000e   Error: 00000004   OldMask: 00000000
 ESP/signal: bfffd83c   CR2: 00000001

 FPUCW: ffff037f   FPUSW: ffff4020   TAG: ffffffff
 IPOFF: b74ab55c   CSSEL: 0073   DATAOFF: bfffd958   DATASEL: 007b

 ST(0) 0000 f000000000000000   ST(1) 0000 efefefefefefeff0
 ST(2) 0000 0000000000000000   ST(3) 0000 0000000000000000
 ST(4) 0000 a7f4c18e5b27f1cd   ST(5) 0000 a7f4c18e5b27f1cd
 ST(6) 0000 0000000000000000   ST(7) 0000 c800000000000000

Backtrace:
/lib/libSegFault.so[0xb7fe7398]
[0xffffe420]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5(_ZNSaIcE8allocateEjPKv+0x49)[0xb7687e09]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5(_ZNSs4_Rep9_S_createEjRKSaIcE+0x7e)[0xb768df3e]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5(_ZNSs4_Rep8_M_cloneERKSaIcEj+0x8c)[0xb768e0ec]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5(_ZNSs7reserveEj+0x6d)[0xb768ba3d]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5(_ZNSs6appendERKSs+0x7f)[0xb768bdcf]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5(_ZStplIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEESbIT_T0_T1_ERKS6_S8_+0x3b)[0xb768e32b]
/usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.6[0xb60405a8]
/lib/tls/libc.so.6[0xb75eec20]
[0x0]

.. etc

Without scim:

# Uninstall scim and all related packages
[ageitgey@localhost firefox]$ sudo urpme scim
[ageitgey@localhost firefox]$ catchsegv ./firefox

And it works fine.

I live in China and this is pretty much a show stopper for the hundreds of people in my company.  Scim is required for any real use of this system.

I don't know how this can be easily fixed.  It seems to be a version mismatch of libc based on how Mandriva compiled scim.  Any ideas?

The Mandriva-produced builds are fine, but a large portion of Linux users can't upgrade Mozilla themselves from mozilla.org.

Comment 21

[timeless]

can someone please rebuild enough pieces (scim, libc[++]5, libc[++]6, mozilla) with symbols and run this under valigrind (with 40 or so frames of stack) long enough to hit this crash?

I'd like to blame scim, but without symbols and two stack traces (one for the allocation and one of the free by scim), it's hard for me to do. scim should probably be freeing data using an exposed callback.

Comment 23

[timeless]

note that while I believe this is the oldest and only living bug on this subject, I'm not confirming it, because I believe this is actually a bug in scim.

moving to core since this happens w/ both the installer and the app, and probably the best we can do is enhance the run-mozilla wrapper to detect scim and disable it.

Comment 24

[Jungshik Shin]

Adding something like the following at the beginning of run-mozilla wrapper would do it:

if [ x"$GTK_IM_MODULE" == "xscim" ]; 
then
   export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
fi 

Comment 25

[Frédéric Buclin]

There is no longer a Firefox installer on Linux.