[Bug 330309] [NEW] firefox crashes epically on start always after install of gnash etc

[LimCore]

Public bug reported:


I installed flash (or rather a gnash, some mozilla/flash plugin etc, from normal repositories)

after that, all sites (not just flash ones) crash epically after few
seconds each time.

If I run  firefox -g,  then it segfaults, but then starts up anyway, and
then crashes after few seconds.

Like this:

rafal at aclc:~$ firefox  -g
/usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/firefox -x /tmp/mozargs.ww2887
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...                             
(no debugging symbols found)                                                 
(gdb) r                                                                      
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/firefox                             
(no debugging symbols found)                                                 
(no debugging symbols found)                                                 
(no debugging symbols found)                                                 
(no debugging symbols found)                                                 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]                                
[...]
(no debugging symbols found)                          
(no debugging symbols found)                          
(no debugging symbols found)                          
[Thread 0x41438950 (LWP 2894) exited]                 
[Thread 0x4243a950 (LWP 2896) exited]                 
[Thread 0x41c39950 (LWP 2895) exited]
[New process 2890]
Executing new program: /bin/dash
(no debugging symbols found)
warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error
warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[New process 2890]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
Executing new program: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/firefox
(no debugging symbols found)
[...]
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
(no debugging symbols found)
[...]
(no debugging symbols found)
Segmentation fault

and here firefox anyway runs, but then crashes after few seconds in an
epic way.

Also, synaptic can not instal -dbgsym for this firefox  (side note: so this bug wins the  Bug² award, yey)
(ok there was some instruction with version= something or somethin something on bug hunting wiki, but its totally not user friendly, I  think most people taking time to donte a bug report do not like to spend more of it then needed)

ubuntu 8.10 amd64
ii  firefox                   3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.  

(ps.: bug³ - dpkg -l makes it harder to report damn version. 
Why make 1 developer take 5 minutes to change default column length to 200,  when we can instead make 10000 bug repoters each loose 5 minutes to re-google wheel? that is the spirit, lets make life harder)

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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firefox crashes epically on start always after install of gnash etc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330309
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