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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 09:42 -0800, Micah wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 19:01 -0800, Micah wrote:
> >> I've installed a complete Gnome system for further testing. I have 
> >> confirmed that gedit, eog, and epiphany (and probably any gnome based 
> >> app) all show the bug when launched from KDE. GIMP, PAN2, and OOo do not 
> >> show the bug. This was all tested from a freshly created user account 
> >> with an initially empty home directory. The bug does not show up while 
> >> in a Gnome session (not sure how Indigo managed a crash - maybe he was 
> >> running some KDE software in his Gnome session?) It appears to be a 
> >> general Gnome/KDE incompatibility and has nothing to do with the Gecko 
> >> applications directly.
> > 
> > That's certainly weird since Firefox, GIMP, pan, and OOo use a local GTK
> > + file chooser while gedit, eog, and epiphany can use an enhanced
> > gnome-vfs chooser.  It would have been telling had the crash happened
> > only with one type of application.  Are all the crashes the same in all
> > the applications (i.e. same backtrace)?  If you
> > start /usr/local/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon, does the crash still
> > occur?
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> 
> I'm not familiar with what you mean by "local GTK", but everything I've 
> read recently about Firefox says it uses gnomeui and gnome-vfs if 
> available. From that I thought Firefox was more tightly Gnome integrated 
> than the other programs I mentioned. Maybe I misunderstood.

The crash is in the gtk+ file chooser, though, and not in the gnome-vfs
file chooser.

> 
> Frames 13 through 0 are the same in all the crashes. I've included the 
> short gedit backtrace at the end of this email for comparison.
> 
> Running gnome-settings-daemon does seem to stop the crash for file 
> dialogs, but results in the following error when closing gedit. However 
> it does make all the software usable, including Firefox. Jeremy 
> suggested I try this earlier but I did not have Gnome installed at the time.
> 
> Does any of this help track down the bug, or will it just be a case of 
> people needing all of Gnome installed to run Firefox from KDE?

No, it doesn't really help isolate why the problem is happening.  It's
just good to know we have a workaround.  You should try and find out
what KDE is doing that affects GTK+ or GNOME applications.  THAT would
help track down the crash.

Joe

> 
> gdb gedit
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> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gedit
> warning: Unable to get location for thread creation breakpoint: generic 
> error
> [New LWP 100112]
> [New Thread 0x80db000 (LWP 100112)]
> 
> (gedit:43257): Gnome-CRITICAL **: gnome_program_get_app_version: 
> assertion `program != NULL' failed
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the FAM server: 
> (null)
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Bonobo 
> Component Browser
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for CD Database Server
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for CD Player
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Ekiga Softphone
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Login Photo
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Multimedia 
> Systems Selector
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for On-Screen Keyboard
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder
> 
> ** (bug-buddy:43259): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Volume Monitor
> ptrace: Device busy.
> /home/bsdmjl/43255: No such file or directory.
> /usr/local/share/gnome/bug-buddy/gdb-cmd:1: Error in sourced command file:
> No stack.
> LibGTop-Server: pid 43260 received eof.
> 
> Program exited with code 01.
> 
> 
> Gedit backtrace:
> 
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> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gedit
> warning: Unable to get location for thread creation breakpoint: generic 
> error
> [New LWP 100178]
> [New Thread 0x80db000 (LWP 100202)]
> 
> ** (gedit:43173): WARNING **: Throbber rest icon not found
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 0x80db000 (LWP 100136)]
> 0x486f971e in cache_glob_lookup_literal (file_name=0x846e5f1 "tarit.txt",
>      mime_types=0x7273752f, n_mime_types=2) at endian.h:144
> 144     {
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x486f971e in cache_glob_lookup_literal (file_name=0x846e5f1 
> "tarit.txt",
>      mime_types=0x7273752f, n_mime_types=2) at endian.h:144
> #1  0x486f9cc6 in cache_glob_lookup_file_name (
>      file_name=0x846e5f1 "tarit.txt", mime_types=0xbfbfe3f8, n_mime_types=2)
>      at xdgmimecache.c:578
> #2  0x486f9f74 in _gtk_xdg_cache_get_mime_type_for_file (
>      file_name=0x846e5e0 "/home/bsdmjl/tmp/tarit.txt", statbuf=0x849c000)
>      at xdgmimecache.c:689
> #3  0x486f8401 in _gtk_xdg_get_mime_type_for_file (
>      file_name=0x846e5e0 "/home/bsdmjl/tmp/tarit.txt", statbuf=0x849c000)
>      at xdgmime.c:485
> #4  0x486df177 in cb_fill_in_mime_type (key=0x7273752f, value=0x849c000,
>      user_data=0x8244e48) at gtkfilesystemunix.c:2591
> #5  0x48fa2166 in g_hash_table_foreach_remove_or_steal 
> (hash_table=0x8486ee0,
>      func=0x486df120 <cb_fill_in_mime_type>, user_data=0x8244e48, notify=1)
>      at ghash.c:605
> #6  0x48fa205d in IA__g_hash_table_foreach_remove (hash_table=0x7273752f,
>      func=0, user_data=0x7273752f) at ghash.c:561
> #7  0x486df21f in fill_in_mime_type (folder_unix=0x8244e48)
>      at gtkfilesystemunix.c:2611
> #8  0x486dc253 in load_folder (data=0x8244e48) at gtkfilesystemunix.c:874
> #9  0x48fb2cb8 in g_idle_dispatch (source=0x847bf80, callback=0,
>      user_data=0x7273752f) at gmain.c:3926
> #10 0x48fafdad in g_main_dispatch (context=0x8115d80) at gmain.c:2045
> #11 0x48fb0c50 in IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x8115d80)
>      at gmain.c:2596
> #12 0x48fb102c in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x8115d80, block=1,
>      dispatch=1, self=0x80e8bc0) at gmain.c:2677
> #13 0x48fb16a1 in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x83a6d70) at gmain.c:2881
> #14 0x4856e8c2 in IA__gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:1001
> #15 0x08064db1 in main (argc=0, argv=0xbfbfe7c0) at gedit.c:568
> 
> 
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