986735 - firefox crashes regularly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Jone]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140306171728

Steps to reproduce:

Start. open 2 site. crash. 


Actual results:

GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed


Expected results:

what it for nonsense? someone wishes to correct it? Firefox 28.0

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

bug 672671 comment 21

Comment 2

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

Did Firefox submit a crash report?
If so, can you look in ~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash\ Reports/submitted/ please to find the corresponding "Crash ID"?

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard

Comment 4

[David Eccles (gringer)]

Reporting here (even though I was using a Debian package) because I expect the issue is the same.

I had this problem on Debian with both icedove and iceweasel. Both icedove and iceweasel would terminate without error, with the last message being "Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 689: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!". No stack traces were possible because it didn't think it was a crash.

[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754437]

I eventually found that I could use the 'strace' program to show me system calls, which was close enough to a stack trace for my purposes. This showed that the google talk plugin was looking for some files that didn't exist. Presumably an old version of the google talk plugin was hanging around and causing issues.

Removing the google talk plugins from my .mozilla/plugins directory fixed the problem and icedove/iceweasel now work fine again.

My general advice to others who are having similar issues relating to firefox/iceweasel crashing on startup would be to run strace and then look at the last few lines to see if anything looks odd:

$ strace firefox 2> firefox_strace_$(date +%Y-%b-%d_%H:%M:%S).txt

[date/time included so that you don't make the same mistake as I did and overwrite 'fail' files with working ones]