Mozilla crash on Print

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Nov 28 01:11:32 PST 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 22:35 -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 27 Nov, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:47 -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> >> On 27 Nov, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 13:40 -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> >> 
> >> >> I just got a crash with this Firefox 1.0_3,1 running on 4.10-STABLE.  I
> >> >> am using CUPS.  Here's the stack trace:
> >> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > I'm not sure what more I can do.  The crash ends up in CUPS, then in
> >> > OpenSSL.  I have yet to see a stack trace with those components built
> >> > with debugging symbols.  It looks like a CUPS problem to me, but I don't
> >> > use CUPS, so I don't really have any other ideas except to uninstall it.
> >> 
> >> I rebuilt the libraries with debugging symbols, but at the moment, I
> >> can't reproduce the crash.  Pointing gdb at the old core file, I get:
> > 
> > I'm thinking either the stack is corrupt, or you have a different
> > version of CUPS.  I'm looking at the source for 1.2.22, and this trace
> > doesn't fit.
> 
> Recompiling with -g may have changed things enough to make the core file
> invalid.
> 
> I haven't gotten firefox to crash again, though I only tried printing
> one thing, but now it just locked up on me.  It froze in the semwait
> state while connecting to an ad site to fetch an image.  Hmn, looks like
> the problem is related to linux-flashplugin6 ...

Yeah, lpw still has quite a few problems, and can trigger crashes,
hangs, and strange X errors at startup.  While I use lpw, I always
recommend against it if you want the most problem-free Firefox
experience.

I wouldn't think it would cause the printing crash, though, since
Thunderbird users reported the same thing.

Joe

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