NetBSD Problem Report #51499

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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:27:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: james.deagle@yahoo.com
Reply-To: james.deagle@yahoo.com
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Firefox 47 ('Nightly') crashes in less than one minute of boot
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>Number:         51499
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       Firefox 47 ('Nightly') crashes in less than one minute of boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 23 15:30:00 +0000 2016
>Closed-Date:    Sun Oct 14 02:45:20 +0000 2018
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 14 02:45:20 +0000 2018
>Originator:     James Deagle
>Release:        7.0.1
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
I don't have the uname -a output, as I'm entering this from the live DVD of another OS. However, it was installed and patched up to 7.0.1 yesterday (September 22, 2016). going by memory, the output would otherwise include:

NetBSD 7.0.1 amd64
>Description:
When I boot up Firefox, it hangs and then crashes within one minute. I started it from within twm with:

$ firefox &

As Firefox started and then crashed, the originating xterm session generated this output:

Script started on Fri Sep 23 10:10:50 2016
darkstar$ firefox &

[1] 13490
darkstar$ LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object "libX11.so.6" not found]
Vector smash protection is enabled.

(process:25860): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_path_get_basename: assertion 'file_name != NULL' failed
[Child 25860] WARNING: pipe error: Broken pipe: file /work/www/firefox/work/firefox-47.0/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 787
[NPAPI 11321] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /work/www/firefox/work/firefox-47.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2027
[NPAPI 11321] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /work/www/firefox/work/firefox-47.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2027
[Child 25860] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /work/www/firefox/work/firefox-47.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2027
[Child 25860] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /work/www/firefox/work/firefox-47.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2027
*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** ERROR: rpc_end_sync called when not in sync!


[1] + Memory fault         firefox  (core dumped)
darkstar$ exit


Script done on Fri Sep 23 10:18:45 2016


I'm not the most technical user, so I don't know entirely what to make of the above, though I suspect there are some solid clues in there for those who can.

Cheers,
James
>How-To-Repeat:
In this case, simply reboot Firefox. 
>Fix:
n/a

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: coypu@SDF.ORG
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/51499
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:53:10 +0000

 Seems like this problem was not netbsd specific (I've seen others
 mentioned it) and was extra bad for version 47.
 perhaps we should be better about pulling up versions of firefox
 to stable?
 Firefox 48.x and 49 (in pkgsrc-current) crash a lot less.

From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
 Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org,
 gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
 pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org,
 james.deagle@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: pkg/51499
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 20:50:21 +0200

 +agc

 > Am 24.09.2016 um 17:55 schrieb coypu@SDF.ORG:
 >=20
 > perhaps we should be better about pulling up versions of firefox
 > to stable?
 > Firefox 48.x and 49 (in pkgsrc-current) crash a lot less.

 As a maintainer of the stable tree, I don=E2=80=99t object to this at =
 all. Just send in those pullup requests!=20

 Alistair, what=E2=80=99s your opinion on this?=

From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org, 
	james.deagle@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: pkg/51499
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:09:13 -0700

 Just want to chime in with my $0.02 - completely agree, let's get the
 pullups in when we can, please, it helps pkgsrc and firefox to have as
 stable a time as possible. :)

 On 24 September 2016 at 11:50, Benny Siegert <bsiegert@gmail.com> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/51499; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert@gmail.com>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
 >  Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
 > Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org,
 >  gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
 >  pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org,
 >  james.deagle@yahoo.com
 > Subject: Re: pkg/51499
 > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 20:50:21 +0200
 >
 >  +agc
 >
 >  > Am 24.09.2016 um 17:55 schrieb coypu@SDF.ORG:
 >  >=20
 >  > perhaps we should be better about pulling up versions of firefox
 >  > to stable?
 >  > Firefox 48.x and 49 (in pkgsrc-current) crash a lot less.
 >
 >  As a maintainer of the stable tree, I don=E2=80=99t object to this at =
 >  all. Just send in those pullup requests!=20
 >
 >  Alistair, what=E2=80=99s your opinion on this?=
 >
 >

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: maya@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 02:45:20 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
firefox hasn't been crashy in a while, because our current workaround is good. the original cause fr the crashes still exists and there is 53273 for it.


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