[Bug 370603] Re: Firefox crashes in Ubuntu 9.04, seemingly at random

[Mariano Iglesias]

http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2005.07.27.html

I also found a lot of random firefox crashes lately. First my
environment (Jaunty Jackalope, AMD64, Firefox 3.0.10):

$ uname -a
Linux seinfeld 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linu

So I decided to debug the issue. I used gdb to debug firefox by using
the following commands:

$ cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
$ /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/run-mozilla.sh -g firefox -d gdb

Once inside gdb, I entered the command run to start firefox, and then
using FF I accessed a website which I known to have crashed my FF
everytime. This is what GDB gave me after doing that:

---------------------------------------------------------
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/plugins:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
DISPLAY=:0.0
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/components:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
          LIBPATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10:/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10
      MOZ_PROGRAM=firefox
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=1
     moz_debugger=
/usr/bin/gdb firefox -x /tmp/mozargs.dyrlOe
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/firefox '-d' 'gdb'
(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)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread 0x7f43ca7b1700 (LWP 14094)]
(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread 0x7f43ba11f950 (LWP 14097)]
[New Thread 0x7f43b9479950 (LWP 14098)]
[New Thread 0x7f43b8a12950 (LWP 14099)]
[Thread 0x7f43b8a12950 (LWP 14099) exited]
[New Thread 0x7f43b8a12950 (LWP 14100)]
[New Thread 0x7f43b1491950 (LWP 14101)]
[New Thread 0x7f43b0c90950 (LWP 14102)]
[New Thread 0x7f43af00c950 (LWP 14103)]
[New Thread 0x7f43ae7f7950 (LWP 14105)]
[New Thread 0x7f43a7f47950 (LWP 14114)]
[New Thread 0x7f43a7746950 (LWP 14115)]
[New Thread 0x7f43a50e1950 (LWP 14116)]
[New Thread 0x7f43a4888950 (LWP 14117)]
[Thread 0x7f43a50e1950 (LWP 14116) exited]
[Thread 0x7f43a4888950 (LWP 14117) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f43ca7b1700 (LWP 14094)]
0x00007f43a9197702 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
---------------------------------------------------------

>From the above output, it was clear that the flash player was making
Firefox unstable. I then remembered I had installed the Flash plugin
from Adobe website directly. So I removed the plugin:

$ sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

And then installed the plugin from the repositories:

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Since then I have had no crashes, yay!

If some of you still have crashes, I recommend you use GDB to get some
very valuable information.

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Firefox crashes in Ubuntu 9.04, seemingly at random
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