265103 - Today's linux build crashes on startup

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 254967

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

used the installer for 2004101909-0.9+ on linux fc2. after going through the
installer (custom), firefox seg faulted when attempting to startup (no talkback).

./run-mozilla.sh: line 451:  2537 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I'll see if this occurs with the non-installer blob.

Tracy, Marcia, how are the Windows and Mac builds for you?

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

also crash when using non-installer blob.

Comment 2

[Chase Phillips]

This could be related to caillon's landing of the GTK2 file chooser.

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?module=AviaryBranchTinderbox&branch=AVIARY_1_0_20040515_BRANCH&cvsroot=/cvsroot&date=explicit&mindate=1098145500&maxdate=1098146880&who=caillon%25redhat.com

Also, the crash-on-startup bug leads to a test-failed status for our Aviary
Linux Tinderboxen.  It's the cause of our missing Linux branch builds this morning.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 265118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

Graham, in the bug you filed you mentioned seeing talkback. could you file the
talkback report here and add the incident ID number? thanks!

(for some reason I didn't get tb when using either the installer or non-inst
builds.)

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

from Marcia:

http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=1398069

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

over irc Chase mentions that this bug might also be why the linux branch tbirds
failed today.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

accidentally clobbered chofmann's flag setting; resetting back to plus.

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron:]

So the basic problem here, according to bryner, is that bug 254967 didn't land
on the branch, but it is a prerequisite for the filepicker to land.

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron:]

Or at least a prerequisite for it to land in the state it's currently in on the
trunk.  The use of REGISTER_AGAIN is, according to caillon, now unnecessary, and
he posted a patch on IRC to allow that to be removed.  I think it would be
reasonable to reland the GTK2 filepicker with the patch caillon posted on IRC,
assuming it's been tested.

Comment 10

[David Baron :dbaron:]

Caillon's patch on IRC is
http://people.redhat.com/caillon/patches/register-again.patch

My only concern with that patch is the removal of the call to
nsFilePicker::Shutdown, but that seems like something that should be in the
module destructor anyway (perhaps move it there?).

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

looks fixed using 2004101918-0.9+ bits.

Comment 12

[David Baron :dbaron:]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254967 ***

Comment 13

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Aviary builds for the last 3-4 days have all crashed on first run. Still
happening today with with this hot off of ftp.mozilla.org build:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041021 Firefox/1.0

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this morning's build (and y'day's) work fine for me: no crash on initial launch.
Jeremy, is talkback appearing for you when you crash?

Comment 15

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

sairuh: no, no talkback shows up on this first-run crash. (Normal crashes during
surfing, rare as they are nowadays, do pop up talkback.) Perhaps it's something
in the talkback code itself causing the crash before it can load? Maybe making
~/.talkback/<build-id>?  I will ./mozilla-installer -ira, then strace my first
run with tomorrow's build to see if that provides any leads.

Comment 16

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Still happening. This time talkback DID pop up, for once. ID is TB1486393E,
though it may not be available in the DB for twelve hours or so, there's quite a
backlog.
Should a seperate bug be filed? Again, this is only on first run for each new build.