Closed Bug 264191 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Installer crashes when using --help or -h parametr

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Installer
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 261734

People

(Reporter: kepi, Assigned: bugs)

Details

(Keywords: crash) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

$ LC_ALL=C ./firefox-installer -h
./firefox-installer: line 56: 19225 Segmentation fault      ./${BINNAME}-bin $@

It crashed on my system and also many others, so does not look like distribution
specific problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ./firefox-installer -h     or  ./firefox-installer --help

Actual Results:  
Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  
print help

Here is strace of crash:

LC_ALL=C strace ./firefox-installer -h
execve("./firefox-installer", ["./firefox-installer", "-h"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="holly", ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f0000
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40000000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=81106, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 81106, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40001000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\342"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=252592, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 257868, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40015000
old_mmap(0x4004b000, 36864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x35000) = 0x4004b000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)   = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\312"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10944, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40054000
old_mmap(0x4117b000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4117b000
old_mmap(0x4117d000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x1000) = 0x4117d000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)    = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\350"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1281968, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0x41019000, 1289452, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x41019000
old_mmap(0x41149000, 36864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x12f000) = 0x41149000
old_mmap(0x41152000, 7404, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x41152000
close(3)                                = 0
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0x40054b80, limit:1048575,
seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0,
useable:1}) = 0
munmap(0x40001000, 81106)               = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
close(3)                                = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f0000
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f0000
brk(0x80f1000)                          = 0x80f1000
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f1000
brk(0x80f2000)                          = 0x80f2000
getuid32()                              = 1000
getgid32()                              = 1000
geteuid32()                             = 1000
getegid32()                             = 1000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1097677295
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f2000
brk(0x80f3000)                          = 0x80f3000
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f3000
brk(0x80f4000)                          = 0x80f4000
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY)             = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=237, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40055000
read(3, "/dev/hda2 / reiserfs rw,notail 0"..., 131072) = 237
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40055000, 131072)              = 0
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY)         = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40055000
read(3, "MemTotal:       499388 kB\nMemFre"..., 1024) = 572
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40055000, 4096)                = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f4000
brk(0x80f5000)                          = 0x80f5000
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="holly", ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/kepi/prac/czilla/firefox-1.0PR/firefox-installer-cz",
{st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=312, ...}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=312, ...}) = 0
getpid()                                = 19316
getppid()                               = 19315
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f5000
brk(0x80f6000)                          = 0x80f6000
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f6000
brk(0x80f7000)                          = 0x80f7000
getpgrp()                               = 19315
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x807ac80, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
open("./firefox-installer", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffff660) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate
ioctl for device)
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
read(3, "#!/bin/sh\n#\n# The contents of th"..., 80) = 80
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)            = 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0
dup2(3, 255)                            = 255
close(3)                                = 0
fcntl64(255, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)       = 0
fcntl64(255, F_GETFL)                   = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat64(255, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1699, ...}) = 0
_llseek(255, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)          = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f7000
brk(0x80f8000)                          = 0x80f8000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "#!/bin/sh\n#\n# The contents of th"..., 1699) = 1699
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f8000
brk(0x80f9000)                          = 0x80f9000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x80f9000
brk(0x80fa000)                          = 0x80fa000
pipe([3, 4])                            = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
_llseek(255, -169, [1530], SEEK_CUR)    = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0x40054bc8) = 19317
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
waitpid(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], WNOHANG) = 19317
waitpid(-1, 0xbfffeffc, WNOHANG)        = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x807ac80, [], 0}, {0x807ac80, [], 0}, 8) = 0
close(4)                                = 0
read(3, ".\n", 128)                     = 2
read(3, "", 128)                        = 0
close(3)                                = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079bd0, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8079bd0, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "BINNAME=`basename $0`\n\nif [ \"$BA"..., 1699) = 169
pipe([3, 4])                            = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
_llseek(255, -147, [1552], SEEK_CUR)    = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0x40054bc8) = 19318
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
waitpid(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], WNOHANG) = 19318
waitpid(-1, 0xbfffeffc, WNOHANG)        = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x807ac80, [], 0}, {0x807ac80, [], 0}, 8) = 0
close(4)                                = 0
read(3, "firefox-installer\n", 128)     = 18
read(3, "", 128)                        = 0
close(3)                                = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079bd0, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8079bd0, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "\nif [ \"$BASEDIR\" = \"\" ]; then\n  "..., 1699) = 147
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
stat64("/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_size=120, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/kepi", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4120, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/kepi/prac", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=624, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/kepi/prac/czilla", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=320, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/kepi/prac/czilla/firefox-1.0PR", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
st_size=656, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/kepi/prac/czilla/firefox-1.0PR/firefox-installer-cz",
{st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=312, ...}) = 0
chdir("/home/kepi/prac/czilla/firefox-1.0PR/firefox-installer-cz") = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
_llseek(255, -1, [1698], SEEK_CUR)      = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0x40054bc8) = 19319
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079bd0, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
waitpid(-1, [{WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGSEGV}], 0) = 19319
write(2, "./firefox-installer: line 56: 19"..., 80./firefox-installer: line 56:
19319 Segmentation fault      ./${BINNAME}-bin $@
) = 80
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
waitpid(-1, 0xbffff18c, WNOHANG)        = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8079bd0, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "\n", 1699)                   = 1
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "", 1699)                     = 0
exit_group(139)                         = ?
Marking NEW as users complain on this bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: crash
Summary: Installer crashs when using --help or -h parametr → Installer crashes when using --help or -h parametr
straces are useless. please get a stack trace. use gdb or dbx.
This seems to be duplicate of bug 261734 anyway, see the 1.1.6.1 revision of
mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/unix/wizard/nsXInstaller.cpp in the firefox
branch.

If Ondra agrees with me, he should change the status of the bug to duplicate of
#261734
yup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261734 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
v=aha
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: bugzilla → installer
Depends on: 380437
No longer depends on: 380437
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