Bug#567415: iceweasel won't restart after it crashes

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:49:11AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:50:13AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> >>Mike Hommey wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:55:32PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> >>>>Package: iceweasel
> >>>>Version: 3.5.6-1
> >>>>Severity: important
> >>>>
> >>>>After Iceweasel crashes it refuses to restart - even in safe-mode -
> >>>>until I reboot the computer. Simply logging out and back in again
> >>>>doesn't clear the problem.
> >>>Does it say something when it refuses to restart ?
> >>>
> >>>Isn't there a firefox-bin process still running ?
> >>>
> >>>Mike
> >>>
> >>No. It just doesn't restart. There is no firefox-bin process
> >>running. However syslog shows:
> >>
> >>2010-01-29 09:49:16    transponder    kernel    [151666.119720]
> >>firefox-bin[17244]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fff546d4348
> >>error 14 in xulrunner-stub[400000+15000]
> >
> >Is there a ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/lock file ? What happens if you remove
> >it ?
> >
> >Mike
> >
> Removing it doesn't help. That was the first thing I tried.

Can you send the output for strace -f -o /some/file iceweasel ?
(located, obviously, in /some/file, and, still obviously, when it fails,
only)

Cheers,

Mike