658013 - Thread-safety crash caused by use of corporate Java-based VPN client

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 640908

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Richard G.]

Attachment: GDB session on debug build of Ubuntu firefox-4.0.1 source

I originally obtained this crash with Ubuntu's firefox-4.0.1 build. I've subsequently reproduced it with a debug build of same (see attached GDB session for the stack trace), as well as an official 4.0.1 build (with a couple of BreakPad submissions from same).

The crash was obtained by starting Firefox with no ~/.mozilla/ no ~/.icedtea/ directory present, logging in to my company's remote-access Web page, and (via the IcedTea/OpenJDK Java plug-in) starting a Juniper Networks Java-based VPN client.

The crash may occur shortly afterward, or not until I terminate the client. However, the failure mode does appear to be the same in all cases.

This crash is easy to reproduce, and I would be happy to test any prospective fixes.

Comment 1

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Should this be tech evang?  My gtk is a bit rusty but I'm pretty sure calling g_main_context_iteration off the main thread is a bad idea.