https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572#c1 --- Comment #1 from Dave Plater 2011-04-28 15:20:56 UTC --- Got the -d gdb part right for firefox and thunderbird posting backtraces. Seems that pulseaudio has something to do with it. Oh well if that is so the bug goes back to me, pulse wasn't even enabled in yast but that obviously doesn't stop it from crashing mozilla apps. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572#c3 --- Comment #3 from Dave Plater 2011-04-28 15:32:29 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=427104) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=427104) Thunderbird back trace -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572#c5 --- Comment #5 from Takashi Iwai 2011-04-28 16:21:17 UTC --- Which repo did these package come from? It seems that the sound support is enabled on your firefox/thunderbird (or xulrunner), thus it does require PA indeed. And PA lib seems crashing badly when PA isn't running / disabled. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572#c7 --- Comment #7 from Dave Plater 2011-04-28 17:37:03 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=427123) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=427123) kde back trace -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572#c9 --- Comment #9 from Wolfgang Rosenauer 2011-04-28 19:07:07 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4)

What I would like to know is how to disable the crash reporter as it is now an irritant.

export MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_DISABLE=1 But usually I'm fine with getting the crash id as well. It's not useful if the crash happens outside of the Mozilla application though. (In reply to comment #5)

Which repo did these package come from? It seems that the sound support is enabled on your firefox/thunderbird (or xulrunner), thus it does require PA indeed. And PA lib seems crashing badly when PA isn't running / disabled.

Sound support is enabled in every Firefox and Thunderbird build anyway. It doesn't _need_ pulseaudio but I guess if it's partly there it will get used. What was an issue for some people in the past was the libcanberra integration of Firefox/Thunderbird which creates sound effects for UI actions (if configured to do so). This seems to be fragile when it comes to pulseaudio. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572#c11 Dave Plater changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Firefox |Sound AssignedTo|bnc-team-mozilla@forge.prov |tiwai@novell.com |o.novell.com | Summary|Firefox and Thunderbird get |If pulse audio server isn't |into a state where a right |running Firefox and |click causes a crash. |Thunderbird crash on right | |click and kmix crashes on | |start. --- Comment #11 from Dave Plater 2011-04-29 01:27:57 UTC --- I restarted to get everything back to the state where it crashes, tried system settings phonon and it crashed on pulse audio as expected. Then I started pulse audio from the command line and haven't had any more crashes. Seems that pulse has to be running, I will try enabling it with yast and then restart again and see if it runs. Don't know what was the initial cause but I suspect mplayer which I installed and then uninstalled. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690572#c13 --- Comment #13 from Dave Plater 2011-04-29 13:04:10 UTC --- I've always had PA disabled so I can't understand why these other apps suddenly crash when it's not running. I'm looking at my zypper history file which has a record of every installation, update and removal. I found my computer had shut down by itself approximately a week ago and had to reinstall my nvidia run package on each restart, that seems stable now and I'm pretty sure was caused by mplayer but not proven. Another possibility is that this is the result of me removing hal from my system. Maybe I should try reinstalling the kde3 packages that depend on it? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.