mozilla-browser: mozilla segfaults on launch

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #258512 http://bugs.debian.org/258512

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:58:06 -0700
From: Daniel Keshet <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: mozilla-browser: mozilla segfaults on launch

Package: mozilla-browser
Version: 2:1.7-4
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

On launch, mozilla segfaults. I recompiled it from the source package,
and got the same result. If I try mozilla firefox, it fails with the
following message:

dkesh@agave:~$
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin: relocation error:
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin: undefined symbol: _ZTV9nsAString

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages mozilla-browser depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.4-2 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.3-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4 2:1.7-4 Netscape Portable Runtime Library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System printing extension
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 21.4-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xlibs 4.3.0-0pre1v5 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:08:07 +0900
From: Takuo KITAME <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#258512: mozilla-browser: mozilla segfaults on launch

severity 256072 normal
tag 256072 unreproiducible
tag 256072 moreinfo
stop

works for me.
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Takuo KITAME <email address hidden>

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:30:27 +0900
From: Takuo KITAME <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: mistaken

severity 258512 normal
tag 258512 unreproducible
tag 258512 moreinfo
tag 256072 -moreinfo
severity 256072 wishlist
stop

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Takuo KITAME <email address hidden>

Tested on a fresh warty installation, firefox and mozilla work fine.

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:44:20 -0700
From: Dan Keshet <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: more info from gdb

I was able to obtain some more information by running mozilla-bin and
firefox-bin through gdb.

First, I got an error:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 4010)]
0x40f0e8ac in nsHTMLReflowState::UseComputedHeight ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libgklayout.so

I looked up that function in the source, and tried setting the environment
variable GECKO_USE_COMPUTED_HEIGHT to 1. This worked, and mozilla (or
firefox) launch many more threads than before, and a window that starts
querying www.mozilla.org

Eventually, though they both crash with a segmentation fault. gdb reports the
following, consistently, with either:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 4342)]
0x40e36ce2 in nsTextFrame::TextStyle::TextStyle ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libgklayout.so

--dk

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:22:42 -0700
From: Dan Keshet <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: problem was corrupt fonts

I reinstalled my truetype fonts, and that fixed the problem. They must have
got corrupted when my system crashed (I've noticed a few other corrupt
files.) There are similar bugs list on bugzilla.mozilla.org:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246836 has a similar bug, with an
answer saying:

and

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250061 says

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:40:57 GMT
From: ROBERTOJIMENOCA <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: mozilla-browser: mozilla segfaults on launch

I can't reproduce this bug either.
Please test latest Mozilla release from testing/unstable and reopen otherwise.

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:54:38 -0500
From: Dan Keshet <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#258512 acknowledged by developer (Re: mozilla-browser: mozilla segfaults on launch)

Sorry, I thought I had closed this: the problem was due to
corrupted fonts.