327116 - Firefox 1.5 crashes upon startup with SCIM

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261194

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Felix Luk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

After installing and enabling SCIM (under FC4 if that is helpful), Firefox crashes upon startup every time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable SCIM (http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation/installation_and_configuration/fedora_core_
2. Reboot box
3. Start Firefox

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes, feeback agent appears

Expected Results:  
Firefox starts normally

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In that case you should have a talkback ID. Can you copy the number(s)?

Comment 2

[Felix Luk]

There doesn't seem to be one. The Mozilla Quality Feedback Agent pops up, but there's no feedback number or anything like that.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

To find the ID after the crash go to
<install dir>\extensions\[e-mail]\components\talkback.exe and copy
the ID to this bug.

Comment 4

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=15149698

Is that the talkback report you submitted?

Comment 5

[Felix Luk]

There is no talkback.exe as I am using a Fedora Core 4 box. The content of the master.ini file inside the "talkback" directory is:

; manifest.init;

; WARNING - Do not edit this file. It will likely be overwritten if you do so.



VendorID = "MozillaOrg"

ProductID = "Firefox15"

PlatformID = "LinuxIntel"

BuildID = "2005111116"

ManifestVersion = 0



ApplicationName = "Firefox15"



DisableDontAsk = 0



MaxTriggerCount = 1



DisableUI = 0



DisableWizard = 0



EnableSaveAs = 1



KeyVetoDisabled = 0



ServerCount = 1

ServerAddress0 = 1, "http://talkback.mozilla.org/spiral-bin/Collector.dll"



NubCollectors = UnixCmdLine, LinuxIntelReg, Pc, LinuxELF32SO, LinuxIntelStackTrace, Signal, Uid, eUid, Gid, eGid, Cwd, UnixResourceLimits, Env, LinuxIntelPCCode, LinuxIntelStackDump, Trigger, TriggerTime

UnixCmdLine = 0xc000000a, "SUNIX Command Line"

LinuxIntelReg = 0xc2000000, "SLinux Intel Registers"

Pc = 0xc0000008, "SPC at time of crash"

LinuxELF32SO = 0xc2000004, "SUNIX ELF32 Shared Objects"

LinuxIntelStackTrace = 0xc2000002, "SLinux Stack Trace"

Signal = 0xc0000000, "SUNIX signal value"

Uid = 0xc0000004, "SUNIX Real User ID"

eUid = 0xc0000006, "SUNIX Effective User ID"

Gid = 0xc0000005, "SUNIX Real Group ID"

eGid = 0xc0000007, "SUNIX Effective Group ID"

Cwd = 0xc0000001, "SUNIX Current Working Directory"

UnixResourceLimits = 0xc0000002, "SUNIX Size of Heap"

Env = 0xc0000003, "SUNIX Environment Variables"

LinuxIntelPCCode = 0xc2000003, "SCode memory linux", 32, 64

LinuxIntelStackDump = 0xc2000001, "SDump of Stack linux", 4096

Trigger = 0x80000000, "STrigger Event"

TriggerTime = 0x80000001, "SNub trigger event time"



TransceiverCollectors = PageSizeCollector, SysMem, SysInfo, ProcessorVendor, ProcessorFeature, ProcessorSpeedCollector, ProcInfo, SystemUptimeCollector, ManifestVersionColl, DeploymentIDColl, VendorIDColl, ProductIDColl, PlatformIDColl, BuildIDColl, Platform

PageSizeCollector = 0x0000c105, "SUNIX Page Size"

SysMem = 0x0000c102, "SUNIX System Memory"

SysInfo = 0x0000c101, "SUNIX System Information"

ProcessorVendor = 0x30000012, "SIntel Processor Vendor"

ProcessorFeature = 0x30000013, "SIntel Processor Features"

ProcessorSpeedCollector = 0x0000c107, "SUnix Processor Speed"

ProcInfo = 0x0000c103, "SUNIX Processor Information"

SystemUptimeCollector = 0x0000c106, "SUNIX Uptime"

ManifestVersionColl = 1, "SManifest ver transceiver init"

DeploymentIDColl = 2, "SDeployment ID", 1

VendorIDColl = 2, "SVendor ID", 2

ProductIDColl = 2, "SProduct ID", 3

PlatformIDColl = 2, "SPlatform ID", 4

BuildIDColl = 2, "SBuild ID", 5

Platform = 3, "SPlatform Identifier", 0x60000000









TraceConfig = 128, 0, 20



AssertConfig = 0, 20, 0



TraceParamTrackCount = 32



AssertParamTrackCount = 32



MaxBoxAge = 172800



RandomFilter = 100, 100



APIErrorConfig = 0, 20



FullCircleURL0 = 1, 1, "http://www.fullcirclesoftware.com/"

Comment 6

[timeless]

Incident ID: 15149698 
Stack Signature libstdc++.so.6 + 0x434f2 (0x03a7c4f2) b7ceb210 
Product ID Firefox15 
Build ID 2005111116 
Trigger Time 2006-02-13 23:55:44.0 
Platform LinuxIntel 
Operating System Linux 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 
Module libstdc++.so.6 + (000434f2) 
URL visited  
User Comments Trying to start Firefox with scim enabled. 
Since Last Crash 0 sec 
Total Uptime 248 sec 
Trigger Reason SIGSEGV: Segmentation Fault: (signal 11) 
Source File, Line No. N/A 
Stack Trace  

libstdc++.so.6 + 0x434f2 (0x03a7c4f2)
libstdc++.so.6 + 0x438d3 (0x03a7c8d3)
libstdc++.so.6 + 0x898b4 (0x03ac28b4)
libstdc++.so.6 + 0x8a854 (0x03ac3854)
libscim-1.0.so.8 + 0x5f10f (0x00a1f10f)
libscim-1.0.so.8 + 0x616ba (0x00a216ba)
libscim-1.0.so.8 + 0xa6ec3 (0x00a66ec3)
libscim-1.0.so.8 + 0x9fb74 (0x00a5fb74)
libscim-1.0.so.8 + 0x9dcd6 (0x00a5dcd6)
im-scim.so + 0x23167 (0x00845167)
im-scim.so + 0x2959e (0x0084b59e)
im-scim.so + 0xb3f5 (0x0082d3f5)
ld-linux.so.2 + 0xddcb (0x00bafdcb)
ld-linux.so.2 + 0xdeca (0x00bafeca)
ld-linux.so.2 + 0x11405 (0x00bb3405)
ld-linux.so.2 + 0xdc6e (0x00bafc6e)
ld-linux.so.2 + 0x119c9 (0x00bb39c9)
libdl.so.2 + 0xd42 (0x00d12d42)
ld-linux.so.2 + 0xdc6e (0x00bafc6e)
libdl.so.2 + 0x13e3 (0x00d133e3)
libdl.so.2 + 0xdd2 (0x00d12dd2)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 + 0x14c5 (0x00b094c5)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0xf0ab9 (0x04321ab9)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x26be5 (0x00d53be5)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0xf12d4 (0x043222d4)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0xf1aac (0x04322aac)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0xf1b0f (0x04322b0f)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0xef99e (0x0432099e)
nsWindow::IMECreateContext()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp, line 4493]
nsWindow::NativeCreate()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp, line 2488]
nsWindow::Create()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/gtk2/nsWindow.cpp, line 349]
nsWebShellWindow::Initialize()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/xpfe/appshell/src/nsWebShellWindow.cpp, line 224]
nsAppShellService::JustCreateTopWindow()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/xpfe/appshell/src/nsAppShellService.cpp, line 361]
nsAppShellService::CreateHiddenWindow()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/xpfe/appshell/src/nsAppShellService.cpp, line 178]
nsAppStartup::CreateHiddenWindow()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/toolkit/components/startup/src/nsAppStartup.cpp, line 848]
XRE_main()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp, line 2204]
main()  [/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/Linux_2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/browser/app/nsBrowserApp.cpp, line 62]
libc.so.6 + 0x14d5f (0x00689d5f)

Comment 7

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

More Talkback ID's from "kentling" in #firefox:

TB15682410M, TB15682379G, TB15682365E, TB15682286W, TB15679978Q, TB15679973W, TB15679969M

There seem to be several related bugs in distro bugzilla/tracking systems.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323216 and also http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=92303
Suggestions for the cause of the problem include package dependency errors, and that weak symbol versioning in libstdc++ is a problem - so this is a complex (or at least confused) issue.

A commonly suggested workaround is to set GTK_IM_MODULE=xim and start scim manually with "scim -d". However kentling said he was already doing the first part of this and Firefox broke when switching from Firefox 1.0.7 (presumably Ubuntu Breezy's build of it) and mozilla.org 1.5.

Comment 8

[Felix Luk]

Just a couple of observations

1. scim works fine with Thunderbird (1.0.7-1.1.fc4)

2. Running scim as a daemon doesn't work - scim comes up fine, but there are no input methods in another language. The only way I could make it work in this environment (FC4) is to create a symbolic link in .xinput.d in my home directory.

Comment 9

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

Some more information :
I was using Firefox 1.5 with SCIM as a daemon and GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" flags enabled. Everything was working fine until I switched from gcc 3.3.x to gcc 3.4.x and installed libstdc++-v3 (necessarily). Then, and only after my compiler switch, Firefox would crash on startup. It is the same as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114480. I submitted quite a few talkback reports but I think there are enough here.

Comment 10

[Dai Toyama]

I don't have much more info to add, but just thought I'd let you know that I'm having the exact same problem trying to run Firefox 1.5.0.7 on FC4. I can get around it by exporting GTK_IM_MODULE=xim (with which SCIM still works), but this is the workaround that I hope I will not have to keep using for too long.

Comment 11

[Jungshik Shin]

I'm on an Ubuntu and firefox 1.5 works fine with GTK_IM_MODULE=scim, but firefox2 crashed at start-up. 

For firefox 1.5, I have this :
$ ldd -v `which /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin` | grep stdc
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x420f4000)
                libstdc++.so.6 (CXXABI_1.3) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
                libstdc++.so.6 (GLIBCXX_3.4) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6

For firefox 2, I have this:
$ ldd -v `which /opt/firefox2/firefox-bin` | grep stdc
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4133a000)
                libstdc++.so.5 (GLIBCPP_3.2) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
                libstdc++.so.5 (CXXABI_1.2) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5

For scim, I have this.
$  ldd -v /usr/bin/scim |grep stdc
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x420f4000)
                libstdc++.so.6 (GLIBCXX_3.4) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
                libstdc++.so.6 (CXXABI_1.3) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
                libstdc++.so.6 (GLIBCXX_3.4) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
                libstdc++.so.6 (CXXABI_1.3) => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6


As mentioned in gentoo bug (comment #9), firefox compiled with gcc 3.2 does not go along well with scim complied with gcc 3.4. On my Ubuntu, as shown above, firefox 1.5 is complied with gcc 3.4 while firefox 2 is compiled with gcc 3.2 (so is firefox downloaded from mozilla.org).