386248 - Firefox doesn't want to startup. When I start it from console I get 'Bus Error'

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Van Eenaeme]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; nl-nl) AppleWebKit/419.2.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2007 mozilla.org

When I start Firefox I get a 'Bus Error'.

Firefox was working fine until yesterday evening, when I got a kernel panic while browsing the web with Firefox.
After that I'm not able to launch firefox. In the console I get 'Bus Error', even when I try to run in safe mode.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.a Open Firefox (from the Applications folder)
OR
1.b /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -safe-mode

Actual Results:  
Firefox doesn't start

poisonbook:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS poison$ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -safe-mode
Bus error

Expected Results:  
Start Firefox

poisonbook:/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS poison$ gdb ./firefox-bin 
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This GDB was configured as "i386-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for shared libraries ................... done

(gdb) r
Starting program: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin 
Reading symbols for shared libraries .................++++...............................................++...........+++++ done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at address: 0x00038080
0x005f1c58 in nsBoxFrame::~nsBoxFrame ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x005f1c58 in nsBoxFrame::~nsBoxFrame ()
#1  0x00425f8c in nsContainerFrame::ReflowChild ()
#2  0x0064ad79 in ViewportFrame::AdjustReflowStateForScrollbars ()
#3  0x00115041 in PresShellViewEventListener::HideCaret ()
#4  0x00132805 in nsXULDocument::StartLayout ()
#5  0x00138b07 in nsXULDocument::ResumeWalk ()
#6  0x0013909c in nsXULDocument::ResumeWalk ()
#7  0x00322ea2 in nsStreamLoader::WriteSegmentFun ()
#8  0x00373e89 in nsJARInputStream::~nsJARInputStream ()
#9  0x00330ba8 in nsInputStreamPump::OnStateStop ()
#10 0x0033112d in nsInputStreamPump::OnStateTransfer ()
#11 0x00e6fadd in nsInputStreamReadyEvent::EventHandler ()
#12 0x00e44671 in PL_HandleEvent ()
#13 0x00e4492a in PL_ProcessPendingEvents ()
#14 0x9082d05a in CFRunLoopRunSpecific ()
#15 0x9082cace in CFRunLoopRunInMode ()
#16 0x92dec8d8 in RunCurrentEventLoopInMode ()
#17 0x92debfe2 in ReceiveNextEventCommon ()
#18 0x92f0297c in ReceiveNextEvent ()
#19 0x00233d19 in nsAppShell::~nsAppShell ()
#20 0x0035d769 in nsXULWindow::SetContentScrollbarVisibility ()
#21 0x001f6554 in nsWindowWatcher::OpenWindowJSInternal ()
#22 0x001f6bdd in nsWindowWatcher::OpenWindowJSInternal ()
#23 0x001f0b0c in nsPromptService::~nsPromptService ()
#24 0x001f1db4 in nsPromptService::Init ()
#25 0x00e5a915 in XPTC_InvokeByIndex ()
#26 0x0036eaa3 in XPCWrappedNative::CallMethod ()
#27 0x00360d93 in XPC_WN_CallMethod ()
#28 0x00c52aff in js_Invoke ()
#29 0x00c4528a in js_Interpret ()
#30 0x00c532a6 in js_Invoke ()
#31 0x005be268 in nsXPCWrappedJSClass::CheckForException ()
#32 0x005bb5b3 in nsXPCWrappedJS::SystemIsBeingShutDown ()
#33 0x00e5a9ce in XPTC_InvokeByIndex ()
#34 0x00e5ab20 in nsXPTCStubBase::Stub3 ()
#35 0x00e126f8 in nsObserverService::nsObserverService ()
#36 0x00006669 in XRE_main ()
#37 0x00002598 in main ()
(gdb)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nicolas do you still see this crash in newest version 3.6?

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.8 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.