Re: 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

[Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>]

Justin Madru wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is the weirdest crash I've come across related to an rc kernel.
> First I tested .29-rc1 when it came out and firefox crashed only when 
> clicking on certain links.
> Now I updated my tree and compiled another kernel. This time firefox 
> crashes right after it finishes loading my homepage.
> This happens every time, and has never happened on any kernel before.
>
> I did a strace of firefox and these are the last few lines that are 
> always present before it crashes:
>
> gettimeofday({1232129663, 344658}, NULL) = 0
> gettimeofday({1232129663, 351300}, NULL) = 0
> open(\"/home/justin/.mailcap\", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file or directory)
> time(NULL)                              = 1232129663
> stat64(\"/home/justin/.gnome2/vfs/modules\", 0xbfec4efc) = -1 ENOENT 
> (No such file or directory)
> stat64(\"/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules\", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, 
> st_size=128, ...}) = 0
> geteuid32()                             = 1000
> getegid32()                             = 1000
> getuid32()                              = 1000
> tgkill(4615, 4642, SIGRT_1upeek: ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER,4615,44,0): No 
> such process
>
> So far I've tried other programs, but I haven't seen any other crashes.
> More information about my computer (including: dmesg, config, sysinfo) 
> can be found at:
> http://jdserver.homelinux.org/bugreports/
>
>
I just tested on -rc2 and still firefox crashes upon finishing loading 
the homepage.
I've not had this problem with a pre-29 kernel.

Justin Madru