Mozilla & Firefox crash randomly

scruff · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:57 am Post subject: Mozilla & Firefox crash randomly

I have tried for months (off and on) to solve this, or at least search out an answer but it doesn't seem like others are having the same difficulty as me. Both my favorite browsers (the ONLY browsers for me) crash randomly. Sometimes they crash almost constantly, sometimes they run quite well. It (the crash) always occurs when clicking a link. It They started on my an hour ago and I was running it from a terminal (as usual) and the only message I ever get is:

senor_fjord · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 9

I have the exact same problem on my pbook. It only seemed to begin when I migrated to firefox 0.9 afaict.

scruff · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject:

Real pisser ain't it? Turns out I have to send my iBook in AGAIN for a new logic cable (just got it back 3 weeks ago), so I am going to reinstall Gentoo when I get it back with really conservative cflags, and also use a version lower GCC than is default for 2004.1. I like to wipe out Gentoo when I send off the iBook for repairs in case they feel like telling me it's my fault for running Linux on it

If any of this makes a difference I'll let you know.
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stimuli · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

If it were your compiler flags or GCC version, a LOT of other people would be having the same problem. They aren't. My guess is that it is one of mozilla's dependencies (ie: libpng) that is causing the instability. By reinstalling linux, you will likely solve your problem, but it will not be because of GCC/CFLAGS

edit: LOL, having said that, firefox is now crashing randomly on me! Should have knocked on wood...

boojummy · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:59 pm Post subject:

This also happens to me, and I don't think my compiler opts are all that extreme:

porodzila · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 12:12 am Post subject:

maybe there is a reason why firefox .8 is still the latest unmasked version for ppc, submit your bugs I bet it will be fixed quite soon.
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

I solved my Firefox and Thunderbird crashing problems by recompiling with gcc-3.3.3_pre20040426. I had previously been using gcc-3.3.3_pre20040408-r1. If you'd like to try this, make sure that you also add -fno-strict-aliasing to your CFLAGS.

Good luck!

scruff · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:33 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tip. I had a feeling it was compiler related. I have had several other issues with this release such as not being able to compile qt. I tried that for weeks using every tip I could search out and wound up using the packaged qt from the cd. A friend solved the qt problem by actually downgrading gcc, but that seemed to cause him more trouble than it was worth.

My iBook is getting a new logic board atm, but I'll try it out when I get it back and post the results.
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scruff · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

Well thanks to JoseJX for not only providing the solution, but also providing me with the .bz2 needed to emerge gcc-3.3.3-20040426 as it appears no longer available from Gentoo's mirrors. It not only appears to have solved my Firefox problem, but I was finally able to compile QT and a working version of Abiword which previously on gcc-3.3.3-20040406 would segfault everytime I tried loading it up. Aterm was also unusable after compiling with 20040406 but runs fine on 20040426.

FYI: I used the same CFLAGS as my old install so they appear unrelated. Updating gcc should be the definite fix. If anyone wants/needs the version I am now using let me know and I'll upload it to my site.

<edit> Get the .bz2 here: http://www.xptweaks.org/gcc-20040426.tar.bz2 and put it in your /usr/portage/distfiles directory.

You will need to create the directory /etc/portage if it doesn't already exisit. In it, you should create 3 files: package.keywords package.mask package.unmask

Edit package.keywords and add this line:
~sys-devel/gcc-3.3.3_pre20040426 -*

Edit package.unmask and add this line:
=sys-devel/gcc-3.3.3_pre20040426

Then you can just do 'emerge -u gcc' to update to this version.
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soujirou · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 205 Location: sweden

/usr/bin/firefox: line 388: 6170 Segmentation fault $mozbin "$@"

i get this one
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