11.3 i586 - firefox crash and desktop lockup after updates

[David C. Rankin]

Guys,

Updated my 11.3 i586 box and firefox crashed in both kde3 and gnome
after updates. I uninstalled kde4-integration and it is still crashing.
In gnome, it locks the whole desktop requiring a hard-reset of the box.
The crash reports are:

20:34 zephyr:~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/submitted> for i in *; do
echo $i; cat $i; done
bp-0aaf7807-8fc4-46be-8dc3-32c162101229.txt
Crash ID: bp-0aaf7807-8fc4-46be-8dc3-32c162101229
bp-15f91019-5328-45c0-82f2-b35192101229.txt
Crash ID: bp-15f91019-5328-45c0-82f2-b35192101229
bp-f4389959-5ec8-47ae-a642-364202101229.txt
Crash ID: bp-f4389959-5ec8-47ae-a642-364202101229

Installed packages:

20:34 zephyr:~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/submitted> rpm -qa | grep
- -i moz | sort
MozillaFirefox-3.6.13-0.2.1.i586
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-3.5-16.2.i586
MozillaFirefox-theme-oxygen-1.4.92-4.1.noarch
MozillaFirefox-translations-common-3.6.13-0.2.1.i586
MozillaThunderbird-3.0.11-0.5.1.i586
ca-certificates-mozilla-1.62-2.3.noarch
libproxy0-pacrunner-mozjs-0.3.1-2.2.i586
libproxy1-pacrunner-mozjs-0.4.3-1.3.i586
mozilla-js192-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-nspr-4.8.6-1.1.1.i586
mozilla-nspr-devel-4.8.6-1.1.1.i586
mozilla-nss-3.12.8-1.1.1.i586
mozilla-nss-certs-3.12.8-1.1.1.i586
mozilla-nss-devel-3.12.8-1.1.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner191-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner191-devel-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner191-gnomevfs-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner191-translations-common-1.9.1.16-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner192-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner192-devel-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner192-gnome-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner192-translations-common-1.9.2.13-0.2.1.i586

Anybody else see this? Any suggestions?

tbird is working fine...

[Felix Miata]

Post by David C. Rankin
Updated my 11.3 i586 box and firefox crashed in both kde3 and gnome
after updates. I uninstalled kde4-integration and it is still crashing.
In gnome, it locks the whole desktop requiring a hard-reset of the box.

What video chip?
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[Basil Chupin]

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Guys,
Updated my 11.3 i586 box and firefox crashed in both kde3 and gnome
after updates. I uninstalled kde4-integration and it is still crashing.
In gnome, it locks the whole desktop requiring a hard-reset of the box.

Have a look at the file called places.sqlite. My wife's computer was
doing similar things. I remember reading that doing a VACUUM on this
file often made FF 'nippier', but there was no way I could apply the
command line script- it just wouldn't do any "vacuuming". I had a look
inside this sqlite file and it appeared (compared to the one I have)
corrupted so I replaced it with one from a backup done a while back and
now FF is behaving again. Your problem may have a different source of
course but won't hurt to have a look....

BC

[David C. Rankin]

Post by Felix Miata

Post by David C. Rankin
Updated my 11.3 i586 box and firefox crashed in both kde3 and gnome
after updates. I uninstalled kde4-integration and it is still crashing.
In gnome, it locks the whole desktop requiring a hard-reset of the box.

What video chip?

ATI 9600 - plain jane open-source radeon driver
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[David C. Rankin]

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Guys,
Updated my 11.3 i586 box and firefox crashed in both kde3 and gnome
after updates. I uninstalled kde4-integration and it is still crashing.
In gnome, it locks the whole desktop requiring a hard-reset of the box.

Have a look at the file called places.sqlite. My wife's computer was doing
similar things. I remember reading that doing a VACUUM on this file often made
FF 'nippier', but there was no way I could apply the command line script- it
just wouldn't do any "vacuuming". I had a look inside this sqlite file and it
appeared (compared to the one I have) corrupted so I replaced it with one from a
backup done a while back and now FF is behaving again. Your problem may have a
different source of course but won't hurt to have a look....
BC

Thanks BC, will check it out...
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
www.rankinlawfirm.com

[David C. Rankin]

Remove (at least temporarily) your Java plugin. All your crashes point
to the IcedTeaPlugin.so.

Ah hah! Will do and I'll report back. I've got to shuffle that drive back into
the laptop to check. So it's going to be an hour or so. Wonder why the java
plugin went nuts? I haven't loaded anything special in that regard, just what
11.3 pulls in. Thanks.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
www.rankinlawfirm.com

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Post by David C. Rankin
Guys,
Updated my 11.3 i586 box and firefox crashed in both kde3 and gnome
after updates. I uninstalled kde4-integration and it is still crashing.
In gnome, it locks the whole desktop requiring a hard-reset of the box.
20:34 zephyr:~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/submitted> for i in *; do
echo $i; cat $i; done
bp-0aaf7807-8fc4-46be-8dc3-32c162101229.txt
Crash ID: bp-0aaf7807-8fc4-46be-8dc3-32c162101229
bp-15f91019-5328-45c0-82f2-b35192101229.txt
Crash ID: bp-15f91019-5328-45c0-82f2-b35192101229
bp-f4389959-5ec8-47ae-a642-364202101229.txt
Crash ID: bp-f4389959-5ec8-47ae-a642-364202101229

Remove (at least temporarily) your Java plugin. All your crashes point
to the IcedTeaPlugin.so.


Wolfgang

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Post by David C. Rankin

Remove (at least temporarily) your Java plugin. All your crashes point
to the IcedTeaPlugin.so.

Ah hah! Will do and I'll report back. I've got to shuffle that drive back into
the laptop to check. So it's going to be an hour or so. Wonder why the java
plugin went nuts? I haven't loaded anything special in that regard, just what
11.3 pulls in. Thanks.

Firefox won't even start in safe mode -- or under a new login -- or under root.
Crash ID: bp-208b0dd8-7a47-4d4d-aea8-dfb382101230
Crash ID: bp-29ddbb2d-cce9-4984-b3e0-c9e562101230
Crash ID: bp-35bf56d9-207e-4e44-8b5e-3bb012101230
Crash ID: bp-221cb60f-558d-4d9a-81b2-646512101230
Crash ID: bp-56017740-99fc-4f08-8e14-28a1e2101230
Any other guesses?

No, since my first guess is still my guess. You are still crashing in
***@0x9409

So how about just doing what I proposed?
safe-mode is only for addons not for plugins.


Wolfgang

[David C. Rankin]

Post by Wolfgang Rosenauer
No, since my first guess is still my guess. You are still crashing in
So how about just doing what I proposed?
safe-mode is only for addons not for plugins.
Wolfgang

Sometimes you have to hit me with a big stick before I get it :p

rpm -e java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin

firefox started and loaded without the immediate crash, but then about 3/4 of
the way through the transfer of the mozilla page telling you that firefox was
updated, it locked my box up requiring a hard reset? (I guess there was still
part of the plugin resident in memory)

After the reboot, firefox loaded fine. So, as usual, you nailed it! The question
now becomes -- What is wrong with the IcedTeaPlugin?

I will probably never notice it missing, so I'm not that concerned about it, but
what I don't know is -- what additional information can I post that will help?
Just let me know and I'm happy to do it. Thanks again for your help.
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
www.rankinlawfirm.com

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Post by David C. Rankin
Sometimes you have to hit me with a big stick before I get it :p
rpm -e java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin
firefox started and loaded without the immediate crash, but then about 3/4 of
the way through the transfer of the mozilla page telling you that firefox was
updated, it locked my box up requiring a hard reset? (I guess there was still
part of the plugin resident in memory)
After the reboot, firefox loaded fine. So, as usual, you nailed it! The question
now becomes -- What is wrong with the IcedTeaPlugin?
I will probably never notice it missing, so I'm not that concerned about it, but
what I don't know is -- what additional information can I post that will help?
Just let me know and I'm happy to do it. Thanks again for your help.

I actually have no idea. I'm basically never using Java applets in the
browser but I hear regularly about frequent crashes with every other
version of IcedTea. My advice to people relying on Java applets is to
use the sun plugin and jre instead which usually works fine.

Wolfgang

[David C. Rankin]

Post by David C. Rankin

Remove (at least temporarily) your Java plugin. All your crashes point
to the IcedTeaPlugin.so.

Ah hah! Will do and I'll report back. I've got to shuffle that drive back into
the laptop to check. So it's going to be an hour or so. Wonder why the java
plugin went nuts? I haven't loaded anything special in that regard, just what
11.3 pulls in. Thanks.

Heck,

Firefox won't even start in safe mode -- or under a new login -- or under root.
Here are the latest with -safe-mode, etc..:

me:

Crash ID: bp-208b0dd8-7a47-4d4d-aea8-dfb382101230
Crash ID: bp-29ddbb2d-cce9-4984-b3e0-c9e562101230
Crash ID: bp-35bf56d9-207e-4e44-8b5e-3bb012101230

root:

Crash ID: bp-221cb60f-558d-4d9a-81b2-646512101230
Crash ID: bp-56017740-99fc-4f08-8e14-28a1e2101230

Any other guesses?
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
www.rankinlawfirm.com