Fedora Users — Re: Firefox and Thunderbird crash on F7.

Andy Green wrote:

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

I'll be on my yacht the rest of the day. When I come back I'll remove
firefox and reinstall. Will let you know the outcome.


Same crash :-(


Life is hard!


<OT>

I share the boat with 5 other old farts all with a past in what was once calleddata processing. Our Tuesday sailing is cult and I would hate to miss it.

<eOT>


Here is the last part of the strace, I compared it to an strace of
starting my working firefox, it's fairly similar up to this point.

...
access("/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so", F_OK) = 0
open("/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so", O_RDONLY) = 11
read(11,
"\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@D\7\0004\0\0\0"...,
512) = 512
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=4759307, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1880736, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11,
0) = 0x6b75000
mmap2(0x6d1b000, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11, 0x1a6) = 0x6d1b000
mmap2(0x6d3b000, 21152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x6d3b000
mprotect(0x4f5ca000, 3792, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x4f5ca000, 3792, PROT_READ)   = 0
mprotect(0xbfe59000, 4096,
PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC|PROT_GROWSDOWN) = 0
mprotect(0xb21c9000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb2cda000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb36db000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb40dc000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb4add000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb54de000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb5edf000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb6940000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb7341000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb0dc7000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xb17c8000, 10485760, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
close(11)                               = 0
mprotect(0x6b75000, 1728512, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x6b75000, 1728512, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
access("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so",
F_OK) = 0
open("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so",
O_RDONLY) = 11
read(11,
"\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\341\0\0004\0\0\0"...,
512) = 512
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=236012, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 145968, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11,
0) = 0x5ccf000
mmap2(0x5ceb000, 32768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11, 0x1b) = 0x5ceb000
close(11)                               = 0
lstat64("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/java", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29",
{st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=236012, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_nscp_gcc29.so",
O_RDONLY) = 11
read(11,
"\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\3\1\0004\0\0\0"...,
512) = 512
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=358202, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 247664, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11,
0) = 0x5e46000
mmap2(0x5e76000, 53248, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 11, 0x30) = 0x5e76000
close(11)                               = 0
write(2, "INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: ", 31) = 31
write(2, "Could not get the plugin manager", 32) = 32
write(2, "\n", 1)                       = 1
write(2, "System error?:: Success\n", 24) = 24
writev(20, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
close(20)                               = 0
writev(18, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
close(18)                               = 0
close(17)                               = 0
close(16)                               = 0
unlink("/tmp/orbit-erik/linc-101e-0-506a732e178ad") = 0
close(19)                               = 0
unlink("/home/erik/.mozilla/firefox/454p3zvs.default/lock") = 0
exit_group(-1)

I don't have any strace record of touching
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so and
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_nscp_gcc29.so or
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so in my
working strace.  I would consider mv-ing the contents of those dirs
somewhere else as a test and see if the problem changes.

OK, I'll start removing the files one by one. But apparently the plugin manageris either missing or locked. Would it then help by removing the plugins?


My strace starts creating a file
/home/<user>/.mozilla/firefox/<blah>.default/xpti.dat.tmp around the
point where your strace ends as well, fwiw.


--
Erik.