Firefox and Thunderbird crash on F7.

Wed Aug 22 15:36:27 UTC 2007

Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> 
>> I'll be on my yacht the rest of the day. When I come back I'll remove
>> firefox and reinstall. Will let you know the outcome.

Same crash :-(
> 
> Life is hard!

<OT>
I share the boat with 5 other old farts all with a past in what was once called 
data processing. Our Tuesday sailing is cult and I would hate to miss it.
<eOT>
> 
> Here is the last part of the strace, I compared it to an strace of
> starting my working firefox, it's fairly similar up to this point.
> 
> ...
> access("/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so", F_OK) = 0
> open("/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so", O_RDONLY) = 11
> read(11,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 at D\7\0004\0\0\0"...,
> 512) = 512
> fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=4759307, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 1880736, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11,
> 0) = 0x6b75000
> mmap2(0x6d1b000, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11, 0x1a6) = 0x6d1b000
> mmap2(0x6d3b000, 21152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x6d3b000
> mprotect(0x4f5ca000, 3792, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
> mprotect(0x4f5ca000, 3792, PROT_READ)   = 0
> mprotect(0xbfe59000, 4096,
> PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC|PROT_GROWSDOWN) = 0
> mprotect(0xb21c9000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb2cda000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb36db000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb40dc000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb4add000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb54de000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb5edf000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb6940000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb7341000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb0dc7000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> mprotect(0xb17c8000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> close(11)                               = 0
> mprotect(0x6b75000, 1728512, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
> mprotect(0x6b75000, 1728512, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
> access("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so",
> F_OK) = 0
> open("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so",
> O_RDONLY) = 11
> read(11,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\341\0\0004\0\0\0"...,
> 512) = 512
> fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=236012, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 145968, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11,
> 0) = 0x5ccf000
> mmap2(0x5ceb000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11, 0x1b) = 0x5ceb000
> close(11)                               = 0
> lstat64("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat64("/usr/java", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
> ...}) = 0
> lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
> st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
> st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29",
> {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so",
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=236012, ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_nscp_gcc29.so",
> O_RDONLY) = 11
> read(11,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\3\1\0004\0\0\0"...,
> 512) = 512
> fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=358202, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 247664, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11,
> 0) = 0x5e46000
> mmap2(0x5e76000, 53248, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11, 0x30) = 0x5e76000
> close(11)                               = 0
> write(2, "INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: ", 31) = 31
> write(2, "Could not get the plugin manager", 32) = 32
> write(2, "\n", 1)                       = 1
> write(2, "System error?:: Success\n", 24) = 24
> writev(20, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
> close(20)                               = 0
> writev(18, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
> close(18)                               = 0
> close(17)                               = 0
> close(16)                               = 0
> unlink("/tmp/orbit-erik/linc-101e-0-506a732e178ad") = 0
> close(19)                               = 0
> unlink("/home/erik/.mozilla/firefox/454p3zvs.default/lock") = 0
> exit_group(-1)
> 
> I don't have any strace record of touching
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so and
> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_nscp_gcc29.so or
> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so in my
> working strace.  I would consider mv-ing the contents of those dirs
> somewhere else as a test and see if the problem changes.

OK, I'll start removing the files one by one. But apparently the plugin manager 
is either missing or locked. Would it then help by removing the plugins?
> 
> My strace starts creating a file
> /home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/<blah>.default/xpti.dat.tmp around the
> point where your strace ends as well, fwiw.

-- 
Erik.