Bug#864884: Firefox-esr 52.2 fails to start

Lia Williams nalosig at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 10:04:50 UTC 2017


Followup-For: Bug #864884
Package: firefox-esr
Version: 52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After updating firefox-esr from 49.9.0esr-1~deb8u1 to
52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1, I experienced
the exact same problem as Mr. Walton.  Firefox always immediately
crashes on startup,
-safe-mode or not, with the error:

(firefox-esr:8273): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
'object->ref)count
> 0' failed
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 8317
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...

followed by the Mozilla crash reporter dialog.  Restarting produces
the same error.

Downgrading back to 49.9.0esr-1deb8u1 resolves the issue.

I did not get the error message Mr. Levasseur received, neither did
his suggestion of
tinkering with KDE's GTK settings make any difference. However, he was
using Wheezy,
whereas Mr. Walton and I experienced this on Jessie.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.9
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firefox-esr depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8.1.1
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii  libasound2                1.1.3-5
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.24-11
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.14.8-1
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.8-1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.10.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.108-2
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-3
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3.2
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.3.0-18
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3+deb8u2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
ii  libjsoncpp0               0.6.0~rc2-3.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.16.2-4
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4+b2
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libx11-xcb1               2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxcb-shm0               1.12-1
ii  libxcb1                   1.12-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.12-3
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

firefox-esr recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firefox-esr suggests:
pn  fonts-lmodern          <none>
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-3
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.15-1
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information



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