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

[Gary Dale]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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
>
>   
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