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

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:27:26PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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
> >
> See attached:
> 19206 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> 19206 +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++


Oh, segmentation fault.
Can you follow the instructions in /usr/share/bug/iceweasel/presubj to
get a backtrace ?

Thanks

Mike