ports/105589: Firefox 2.0 segfaults when saving more than one
file per session
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Dec 12 10:19:20 PST 2006
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.
I have isolated the cause of the crash. The problem stems from KDE
setting XDG_DATA_DIRS in the environment. It sets a value with two
instances of /usr/local/share. This seems to cause memory corruption,
and leads to a crash. If you reset XDG_DATA_DIRS
to :/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/X11R6/share:/usr/X11R6/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/gnome Firefox will no longer crash.
This is a two-part bug. KDE is clearly setting a bad value. It should
be adding /usr/local/share/gnome to the XDG_DATA_DIRS, but instead it
duplicates an element. Even so, XDG should not add a duplicate element.
Joe
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