ports/105589: Firefox 2.0 segfaults when saving more than one file per session

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 19:30 +0000, Micah wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/105589; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Micah <micahjon at ywave.com>
> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>
> Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: ports/105589: Firefox 2.0 segfaults when saving more than one
>  file per session
> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:04:22 -0800
> 
>  Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>  > I still can't reproduce it. I think, it might be something in the 
>  > between of KDE vs libgnome or something else. Perhaps, you can try to 
>  > run "/usr/local/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &" before you run firefox 
>  > in KDE to see if it will help. It doesn't make any sense to me, because 
>  > there is no problem in Fluxbox.
>  > 
>  > Cheers,
>  > Mezz
>  
>  Any hope of getting this bug reopened? There are now more people
>  reporting it and more backtraces to examine.
>  
>  I've followed the execution through kdbg and Firefox segfaults when
>  executing line 583 of mozilla/widget/src/gtk2/nsFilePicker.cpp:
>  
>  gint response = gtk_dialog_run (GTK_DIALOG (file_chooser));
>  
>  Indicating it's either a GTK bug or Firefox isn't prepping the
>  file_chooser properly. I haven't been able to follow the execution past
>  that point (not sure how to setup my environment for that). Since the
>  problems cropped up in thunderbird and firefox after the gnome upgrade,
>  it's probably a mozilla/gtk incompatibility. BTW, before the segfault 
>  the debugger shows my stacktrace as being the same (up-to that point) as 
>  the ones Indigo posted, but after the segfault the trace is shorter - 
>  probably means the stack is getting trashed by the bug.
>  
>  I tried to test the uninstall libgnome fix to see how it's affecting 
>  firefox. Running firefox without libgnome causes libimgicon.so and 
>  libmozgnome.so to fail to load. I removed first alternately then both 
>  libimgicon and libmozgnome while libgnome was still installed, but 
>  firefox still crashed, so the problem is not in either of those libraries.
>  
>  Debian /may/ be seeing a similar bug, but I couldn't find any followup
>  info on it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399406
>  
>  Lastly, I'm almost done doing a portupgrade -af just in case there's 
>  something wrong with the /usr/ports/UPDATING instructions for the gnome 
>  upgrade. The majority of software has been rebuilt - but firefox still 
>  shows the bug. There's not much else I can do without help from someone 
>  more knowledgeable in firefox/gtk.

Before anything can be done to fix this, someone needs to provide a
backtrace with full debugging symbols.  For more on doing this, see
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html .

Joe

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