280037 - ./run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 11474 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Sigwald]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

From time to time Firefox will crash and the
./run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 11474 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
message appears on the console.
First I thought it could be caused by a certain website, but that is incorrect.
It happens with any page, it appears to be at random, even with pages I had
surfed before without problems (even surfed in the same session in which the
crash occurs).
The crash happens not very often (about once a day), so the browser it's quite
usable, but it can be quite annoying and make you loose important data.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use firefox for quite a long time.
2.Eventually it will crash.
3.

Actual Results:  
It crashes after a long time.

Expected Results:  
Be stable.

./run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 11474 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

Can you post Talkback ID for this crash "firefox/components/talkback/talkback" ?
Or post a GDB stacktrace if you built Mozilla yourself ?

What plug-ins do you have (about:plugins) ?

Comment 2

[Martin Sigwald]

There is no talkback on my system.
I have the following plugins:
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25
File name: libflashplayer.so
Default Plugin
File name: libnullplugin.so

I've had one more crash since I first posted the bug. apparently, while the
"451" in   	./run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 11474 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
it's a constant, the other number seems to vary, since this time instead of
11474 it read 15194.

Sorry but I have no idea about the stacktrace. I'm just a newbie.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you run Firefox in GDB debugger ?

Start Firefox with:
./firefox -g
Once in GDB:
GDB> run (type run)
when FF crashes, you'll get back to GDB, type:
GDB> bt (for backtrace)
Attach the output in bugzilla.

Comment 4

[weiss gal]

I have the same crash.
usually happen when you switch to firefox and back several times (alt-tab)
I only see it happen in debian. 
I'll try to get a backtrace

Comment 5

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