686763 - Nightly crashes on honeycomb tablet immediately on first start (SIGILL)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 687147

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

On my new Asus Eee Tablet Transformer, I just today, for the first time, installed the Fennec nightly. When starting it, it the screen goes black and Nightly immediately closes again, crashing.

I attached a system log. The most useful output probably starts at:
09-14 13:46:13.464.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Attachment: Log file

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

So the crash reporter didn't come up?

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to Martijn Wargers [:mw22] (QA - IRC nick: mw22) from comment #2)
> So the crash reporter didn't come up?

Precisely.

Comment 4

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I installed Aurora as well now, and suddenly the Nightly crash went away, it starts now. Do the different apps share the same Firefox profile on Android?

Comment 5

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Fred Wenzel [:wenzel] from comment #4)
> I installed Aurora as well now, and suddenly the Nightly crash went away, it
> starts now. Do the different apps share the same Firefox profile on Android?

No - in fact they run as different users and would not even be able to access each other's files if they tried to (which they shouldn't).

Comment 6

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Fred Wenzel [:wenzel] from comment #4)
> I installed Aurora as well now, and suddenly the Nightly crash went away, it
> starts now.

This crash might be the same as bug 686361.  In that bug, it was reported that the third attempt to start Nightly succeeded.

Comment 7

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

yes I am fairly sure this is the same bug then. after updating yesterday, the problem reoccurred but it started on the third try.

Comment 8

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

clouserw seemed to have the same experience when first installing the Nightly on his Asus tablet. After trying to start it a bunch of times, it finally opened.

Comment 9

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Attachment: Log file for comment 7

This is the log for the post-update crashes.

Comment 12

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

This was first reported in bug 686361 in the 2011-09-12 nightly build.  It's been reported on both Motorola Xoom and Asus Transformer tablets.

Comment 13

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

I think it's now very unlikely to happen after bug 686694.

Comment 14

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

we are still seeing all the tegras in automation failing, I still need to double check it is the identical failure.

Comment 15

[JR Conlin [:jrconlin,:jconlin]]

FWIW, I am no longer seeing the problem happening on my devices. (Yay, for several wipes during rooting. ._. )

Comment 16

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

I can't reproduce on my Transformer with the 2011-09-12 nightly build :(

Comment 17

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Bug 687147 landed a workaround. Can anyone reproduce using a nightly?

Comment 18

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

qa-wanted to see if this still happens

Comment 19

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

If there's a way I can test this without nuke-and-paving my tablet, let me know. Otherwise, QA probably has an instance of this tablet they can use to confirm.

Fwiw, I haven't seen this happening after any of the nightly *updates* since.

Comment 20

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

If you can't reproduce it anymore, then this is probably a duplicate of bug 686763.
In bug 687147, a workaround, was added that mitigated this crash.

Comment 21

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to Martijn Wargers [:mw22] (QA - IRC nick: mw22) from comment #20)
> If you can't reproduce it anymore, then this is probably a duplicate of bug
> 686763.

That's *this* bug. Which one did you mean to refer to instead?

Comment 22

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Fred Wenzel [:wenzel] from comment #21)
> (In reply to Martijn Wargers [:mw22] (QA - IRC nick: mw22) from comment #20)
> > If you can't reproduce it anymore, then this is probably a duplicate of bug
> > 686763.
> 
> That's *this* bug. Which one did you mean to refer to instead?

Pretty sure he meant dupe of bug 687147, which I am duping to now. Undupe if someone is still seeing the crash.

Comment 23

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Thanks for debugging and (presumably) fixing this, guys!

Comment 24

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Yes, sorry, that's what I meant to write down. Btw, I was seeing the same startup crashes on the EE Transformer, which I don't see anymore in current nightlies.