422802 - Firefox 3 Beta 4 seg faults and does not start

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008021220 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b4/source/firefox-3.0b4-source.tar.bz2

Firefox 3 beta 4 does not start at all. All I get is a segmentation fault.

Reverting back to Firefox 3 beta 3 works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox 3
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
segmentation fault

Expected Results:  
should start and load home page.

Comment 1

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Heres the stacktrace from gdb

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x00002af5b4391600 in ?? () from ./libmozjs.so
#1  0x00002af5b439e4fd in ?? () from ./libmozjs.so
#2  0x00002af5b4366a63 in JS_ExecuteScript () from ./libmozjs.so
#3  0x00002af5b33a7f7a in ?? () from ./libxul.so
#4  0x00002af5b33a8c90 in ?? () from ./libxul.so
#5  0x00002af5b3b2d718 in ?? () from ./libxul.so
#6  0x00002af5b3b2da08 in ?? () from ./libxul.so
#7  0x00002af5b3b2daf2 in ?? () from ./libxul.so
#8  0x00002af5b3b2e691 in ?? () from ./libxul.so
#9  0x00002af5b3b094c6 in NS_InitXPCOM3_P () from ./libxul.so
#10 0x00002af5b3369b4b in ?? () from ./libxul.so
#11 0x00002af5b336c2bb in XRE_main () from ./libxul.so
#12 0x0000000000400e20 in ?? ()
#13 0x00002af5b74721ea in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#14 0x0000000000400c19 in ?? ()
#15 0x00007ffff819c9a8 in ?? ()
#16 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#17 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#18 0x00007ffff819eabd in ?? ()
#19 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Comment 2

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I've built firefox from CVS and the problem seems to have been fixed.