27556 - crash on startup at profile selection

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 27064

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Eric Lesage]

From Bug Helper:
BuildID:    Unavailable (make -f client.mk done on Sat Feb 12, 2000)
When starting mozilla-bin with ./mozilla, the "Select User Profile" windows gets
to display (it is empty at this point) and then the
application crashes.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Start mozilla in dist/bin with ./mozilla
It eventually segfaults.
Actual Results:  .//run-mozilla.sh: line 29: 24660 Segmentation fault      $prog
${1 "$@"}
Expected Results:  Mozilla should have allowed me to create or select a profile.
I have just done a make -f client.mk a few hours ago (sat feb 12), but this
problem has been there for at least a week; I'm saying that because I had not
checked out a tree for a few weeks before that, so it may be longer. Note that I
had never seen this step before (Select User Profile).

The .mozilla/registry file is created before the crash.

I'm using Linux 2.2.14, gcc 2.95.1, binutils 2.9.1.0.19a; mozilla used to work
here before.

I'll be attaching the standard output. Unfortunately running mozilla -g doesn't
get as far (signal ? received).

Comment 1

[Eric Lesage]

Attachment: Standard output/error before crash

Comment 2

[selmer (gone)]

Please provide a stack trace from your core file.  The info included doesn't 
clarify whether profile manager is actually at fault.

Comment 3

[Eric Lesage]

Attachment: Gdb session and backtrace

Comment 4

[Eric Lesage]

Ok, I just got myself a new gdb from Redhat's ftp server with support for
threads (the latest vanilla gdb doesn't have it... apparently gdb 5.0 is due in
a few weeks). So now I can go all the way to the place where it segfaults. It
might indeed not be a profile manager bug anymore, but I'm not familiar enough
with the internals of mozilla to judge that.

I also added a line to run-mozilla to output the limits on my system.
It might be useful as well for you to know I use gtk+ version 1.2.4
(libgtk-1.2.so.0.2.2).

Comment 5

[selmer (gone)]

nsGCCache::GetGCFromDW looks like Pavlov, reassigning.  Is layout the correct
component for GC stuff?

Comment 6

[Stuart Parmenter]

upgrade binutils.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27064 ***

Comment 7

[Grace Bush]

agree

Comment 8

[Eric Lesage]

Ok, I upgraded my binutils to 2.9.5.0.27; everything works again. Perhaps this
should be noted in the requirements sections of the build instructions? In any
case, thanks to everyone, and sorry the bug turned out to be a duplicate.