firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Wed Feb 10 14:27:28 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:15:13PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1:
> 
> TZAV> firefox3 &
> [6] 91741
> TZAV> Bus error (core dumped)
> 
> [6]    Exit 138                      firefox3
> TZAV> gdb /usr/local/bin/firefox3 ./firefox-bin.core
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> This GDB was configured as "ia64-marcel-freebsd"..."/usr/local/bin/firefox3": not in executable format: File format not recognized
> 
> Core was generated by `firefox-bin'.
> Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error.
> #0  0x2000000041082fe0 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x2000000041082fe0 in ?? ()
> #1  0x20000000412e20c0 in ?? ()
> Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (gdb) 

I've rebuilt firefox with debugging support, so
now I get tons of console output culminating in
someting like this:

++DOCSHELL 0x2000000049046800 == 8
++DOMWINDOW == 14 (0x200000004b6bbc58) [serial = 18] [outer = 0x0]
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
++DOMWINDOW == 15 (0x200000004b768058) [serial = 19] [outer = 0x200000004b6bbc00]
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(aURI) failed: file nsDefaultURIFixup.cpp, line 76
++DOMWINDOW == 16 (0x200000004b6b9458) [serial = 20] [outer = 0x200000004b6bbc00]
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
--DOMWINDOW == 15 (0x200000004b768458) [serial = 17] [outer = 0x200000004ae77c00] [url = http://www.monkey.org/~provos/crawl/]
--DOCSHELL 0x200000004b473000 == 7
--DOMWINDOW == 14 (0x200000004ae77c58) [serial = 15] [outer = 0x0] [url = http://www.monkey.org/~provos/crawl/]
--DOCSHELL 0x2000000049046800 == 6
--DOMWINDOW == 13 (0x200000004b768058) [serial = 19] [outer = 0x200000004b6bbc00] [url = about:blank]
--DOMWINDOW == 12 (0x200000004b6b9458) [serial = 20] [outer = 0x200000004b6bbc00] [url = http://larbin.sourceforge.net/]
--DOMWINDOW == 11 (0x200000004b6bbc58) [serial = 18] [outer = 0x0] [url = http://larbin.sourceforge.net/]
++DOMWINDOW == 12 (0x200000004a718058) [serial = 21] [outer = 0x200000004a71a800]
###!!! ASSERTION: XPConnect is being called on a scope without a 'Components' property!: 'Error', file xpcwrappednativescope.cpp, line 786
###!!! ASSERTION: XPConnect is being called on a scope without a 'Components' property!: 'Error', file xpcwrappednativescope.cpp, line 786
###!!! ASSERTION: XPConnect is being called on a scope without a 'Components' property!: 'Error', file xpcwrappednativescope.cpp, line 786
###!!! ASSERTION: XPConnect is being called on a scope without a 'Components' property!: 'Error', file xpcwrappednativescope.cpp, line 786
*** e = [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: getShellService :: line 326"  data: no]
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
++DOCSHELL 0x200000004b6afc00 == 7
++DOMWINDOW == 13 (0x200000004b7c5058) [serial = 22] [outer = 0x0]
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
++DOMWINDOW == 14 (0x200000004b7c4458) [serial = 23] [outer = 0x200000004b7c5000]
WARNING: Positioned frame that does not handle positioned kids; looking further up the parent chain: file nsCSSFrameConstructor.cpp, line 5724
++DOMWINDOW == 15 (0x200000004b7c2858) [serial = 24] [outer = 0x200000004b7c5000]
*** e = [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: getShellService :: line 326"  data: no]
Bus error (core dumped)

[1]    Exit 138                      firefox3


Does the exception above shed any light on the origin
of crash?

many thanks
anton

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