Bug#638903: iceweasel refuses to start after upgrade

[Svante Signell]

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 23:13 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:31:58PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > Package: iceweasel
> > > Version: 6.0-2
> > > Severity: serious
> > > 
> > > iceweasel refuses to start after upgrade to 6.0. This is the second
> > > computer having the same problem. Is this known? On the other computer I
> > > had to create a new account, and restore by coping the bookmark file:
> > > bookmarks-2011-08-22.json and the settings file:sessionstore.js
> > > manually.
> > 
> > What exactly do you mean with "refuses to start"?
> 
> Does it crash?

It just hangs!

> Does it display something and then abort? 

Starting with  iceweasel -safe-mode -preferences gives the preferences
menu, then a freeze.

iceweasel -safe-mode -jsconsole opens the Error console and then hangs
(no output)

> Is there
> something displayed on the console/in .xsession-errors?

NO!

> What does strace
> -f iceweasel say?

See http://paste.debian.net/127055/ for the last 30k. The whole file is
1.3GB.

> Was iceweasel running during the upgrade?

Yes it was.