656494 - Lots of crashing [@ WrappedNativeProtoMarker ] [@ nsXPConnect::Traverse ]

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[allenjohnson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110429 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110429 Firefox/4.0.1

On Linux from time to time firefox will become very unstable.  It happens with or without extensions.  I may have narrowed it down to after I have torrented something.  For example yesterday I downloaded a new Linux distro and it is crashing quite a bit today.

It is not exclusively tied to a distro.  It's not exclusively tied to a plugin.  It just starts crashing a whole lot from time to time.  If I start it in the terminal it only says "segmentation fault" when it crashes.  Restarting helps sometimes, but when it's happening it'll usually start up either right away after restarting, or it'll hold off before it starts doing it again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.torrent?
2.start firefox in linux
3.lots of crashing commences

Actual Results:  
I don't really want to *try* to reproduce this, because I'm pretty sure it'll get worse if I use torrents.  It last crashed when I started filling out this bug report.


This may just be a problem with my hardware and/or Linux.  I'm not sure how common this is.

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Please post the related crash IDs from about:crashes.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty profile?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Comment 2

[allenjohnson]

Is there a way to get the IDs for Firefox 4?

For what it's worth this would happen in Firefox 3 as well and I would always send in the report.

Comment 3

[allenjohnson]

I thought I would add that I've done as much as install a completely new distro of Linux and a clean install of Firefox without installing anything (including flash), and it still crashed.

The amount it crashes varies, but sometimes it will clearly want to crash over and over and there's no way to stop it.  I can restart, reinstall everything, etc...

Comment 4

[Thomas Ahlblom]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is there a way to get the IDs for Firefox 4?

Yes, enter about:crashes in the location bar and the copy the Report IDs that are related to this bug and paste them here.

Even if you crash different versions of Firefox they will all shown be together in about:crashes. But just post crash IDs that are related to the bug, otherwise that may cause some confusion. The date and time in the right column helps you with that.

This link describes how to do it, but it isn't harder than just copy the relevant IDs from about crashes and paste them in the bug.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

Comment 5

[allenjohnson]

There isn't an about:crashes in Firefox 4.  It's been crashing again on my main install as well as a Live CD I was using earlier.

Comment 6

[allenjohnson]

Alright, my bad.  The version of Firefox I had was compiled with crash reports disabled.  The first couple times it crashed with the official binary it said the english dictionary crashed the system.  I uninstalled it.


Here are the other two which occured in the last 10 minutes or so:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/13be4eb2-aed9-4754-85d7-bc5662110516
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/69a2a612-152e-40e2-b16b-aa16d2110516

Comment 7

[Thomas Ahlblom]

0 	libxul.so 	WrappedNativeProtoMarker 	js/src/xpconnect/src/xpcprivate.h:1930
1 	libxul.so 	JS_DHashTableEnumerate 	js/src/jsdhash.cpp:743
2 	libxul.so 	XPCWrappedNativeScope::MarkAllWrappedNativesAndProtos 	js/src/xpconnect/src/xpcmaps.h:388
3 	libxul.so 	XPCJSRuntime::GCCallback 	js/src/xpconnect/src/xpcjsruntime.cpp:741
4 	libxul.so 	DOMGCCallback 	dom/base/nsJSEnvironment.cpp:3500
5 	libxul.so 	js_GC 	js/src/jsgc.cpp:2514
6 	libxul.so 	JS_GC 	js/src/jsapi.cpp:2662
7 	libxul.so 	nsXPConnect::Collect 	js/src/xpconnect/src/nsXPConnect.cpp:405
8 	libxul.so 	nsXPConnect::GarbageCollect 	js/src/xpconnect/src/nsXPConnect.cpp:413
9 	libxul.so 	nsJSContext::GarbageCollectNow 	dom/base/nsJSEnvironment.cpp:3271
10 	libxul.so 	nsTimerImpl::Fire 	xpcom/threads/nsTimerImpl.cpp:425
11 	libxul.so 	nsTimerEvent::Run 	xpcom/threads/nsTimerImpl.cpp:517
12 	libxul.so 	nsThread::ProcessNextEvent 	xpcom/threads/nsThread.cpp:633
13 	libxul.so 	NS_ProcessNextEvent_P 	nsThreadUtils.cpp:250
14 	libxul.so 	mozilla::ipc::MessagePump::Run 	ipc/glue/MessagePump.cpp:110
15 	libxul.so 	MessageLoop::RunInternal 	ipc/chromium/src/base/message_loop.cc:219
16 	libxul.so 	MessageLoop::Run 	ipc/chromium/src/base/message_loop.cc:202
17 	libxul.so 	nsBaseAppShell::Run 	widget/src/xpwidgets/nsBaseAppShell.cpp:192
18 	libxul.so 	nsAppStartup::Run 	toolkit/components/startup/src/nsAppStartup.cpp:220
19 		@0xb76dc7b3 	
20 	libxul.so 	XRE_main 	toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp:3786
21 	firefox-bin 	main 	nsBrowserApp.cpp:158
22 	libc-2.13.so 	libc-2.13.so@0x19102 	
23 	ld-2.13.so 	ld-2.13.so@0xd91a 	
24 	ld-2.13.so 	ld-2.13.so@0x1386f 	
25 	libc-2.13.so 	libc-2.13.so@0x19018 	
26 	firefox-bin 	Output 	nsBrowserApp.cpp:77
27 		@0x0

Comment 8

[Thomas Ahlblom]

0 	libxul.so 	nsXPConnect::Traverse 	js/src/xpconnect/src/nsXPConnect.cpp:697
1 	libxul.so 	GCGraphBuilder::Traverse 	xpcom/base/nsCycleCollector.cpp:1523
2 	libxul.so 	nsCycleCollector::MarkRoots 	xpcom/base/nsCycleCollector.cpp:1764
3 	libxul.so 	nsCycleCollector::BeginCollection 	xpcom/base/nsCycleCollector.cpp:2633
4 	libxul.so 	nsCycleCollectorRunner::Run 	xpcom/base/nsCycleCollector.cpp:3321
5 	libxul.so 	nsThread::ProcessNextEvent 	xpcom/threads/nsThread.cpp:633
6 	libxul.so 	NS_ProcessNextEvent_P 	nsThreadUtils.cpp:250
7 	libxul.so 	nsThread::ThreadFunc 	xpcom/threads/nsThread.cpp:277
8 	libnspr4.so 	_pt_root 	ptthread.c:187
9 	libpthread-2.13.so 	libpthread-2.13.so@0x6c76 	
10 	libc-2.13.so 	libc-2.13.so@0xcfc6d

Comment 9

[allenjohnson]

I was doing some torrenting early this morning.  Not sure if this is a coincidence.  I've had 10+ crashes in the last few hours.  I restart after each couple.

bp-ebff91e0-5360-4566-9a04-27f5f2110523  05/23/20110  9:49 AM
bp-00990e77-1109-4cf6-8bf9-4c2422110523  05/23/20110  9:46 AM
bp-06615837-f8b3-4c90-858c-f355f2110523  05/23/20110  8:49 AM
bp-fe501152-8adf-452e-8306-f6e822110523  05/23/20110  8:49 AM
71ba109f-aed9-92e7-7b04a602-6da9de16     05/23/20110  8:14 AM
bp-8dceb619-5c99-454b-b0c2-700352110523  05/23/20110  8:06 AM
35a2916e-8520-6258-1452c51d-4299c565     05/23/20110  8:04 AM
bp-3139b29d-a4ac-4693-8715-a20cb2110523  05/23/20110  6:04 AM
39cef076-958c-1d42-5d210587-054ac11e     05/23/20110  6:04 AM

Comment 10

[George Carstoiu]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Alright, my bad.  The version of Firefox I had was compiled with crash
> reports disabled.

Just to make sure, did you get Firefox from www.mozilla.org, or did you build it yourself?

Also, were you able to narrow down the steps to reproduce this so we can verify it too?

Thanks!

Comment 11

[George Carstoiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110707 Firefox/8.0a1

Setting status to Resolved Incomplete. Please reopen when you can provide more information.