[Bug 521551] New: Unable to start MozillaFirefox
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 Summary: Unable to start MozillaFirefox Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE.org Version: unspecified Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: 3rd party software AssignedTo: wolfgang@rosenauer.org ReportedBy: lrupp@novell.com QAContact: opensuse-communityscreening@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: Development MozillaFirefox-3.5.0-7.1 MozillaFirefox-translations-3.5.0-7.1 MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-3.5-10.3 mozilla-xulrunner191-1.9.1.0-9.1 mozilla-xulrunner191-translations-1.9.1.0-9.1 mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.11-1.1.1 mozilla-xulrunner190-gnomevfs-1.9.0.11-1.1.1 mozilla-xulrunner190-translations-1.9.0.11-1.1.1 mozilla-nspr-4.8-1.1 mozilla-nss-3.12.3-6.1 Starting firefox in a console via: lrupp@sonne:~> firefox /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -x /tmp/mozargs.qiYEjv firefox: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:75: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `malloc_usable_size (netgrp->data) >= len + 1' failed. /usr/bin/firefox: line 126: 6540 Aborted $moz_debugger "$MOZ_PROGRAM" -x $tmpfile Note: moz_debug=1 is set in /usr/bin/firefox /tmp/mozargs.qiYEjv contains: set args run Windowmanager is kde4-kdm (but running KDE3 apps normaly). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User wolfgang@rosenauer.org added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c1 Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |pbaudis@novell.com Info Provider| |pbaudis@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2009-07-14 04:49:40 MDT --- Petr, I think you know a bit about glibc's nss. Firefox doesn't really fiddle with that but is just a consumer. Does that look like an application error? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User pbaudis@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c2 Petr Baudis <pbaudis@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|pbaudis@novell.com | --- Comment #2 from Petr Baudis <pbaudis@novell.com> 2009-07-14 07:08:12 MDT --- This is another fallout from the malloc() problem I think; I think malloc_usable_size() returns nonsensical result since netgrp->data happenned not to be allocated by malloc. How does this particular version of Firefox handle malloc? Does it use any of the hacks from bug 503151? Couldn't this be a dupe of bug 519168? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User wolfgang@rosenauer.org added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c3 --- Comment #3 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2009-07-14 09:00:15 MDT --- This build has the upstream mozilla-jemalloc_deepbind.patch integrated already :-( (Lars, could you please confirm reading the mozilla-xulrunner191 changelog of the package?) I've also thought about that but it would mean the upstream fix which we inheritated is not complete/correct. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User lrupp@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c4 Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lrupp@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> 2009-07-14 10:13:58 MDT --- ~> rpm -q --changelog mozilla-xulrunner191 | head * Wed Jul 08 2009 wr@rosenauer.org - fixed mozilla-sysplugin-biarch.patch to accept 64bit plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins * Thu Jul 02 2009 wr@rosenauer.org - added mozilla-jemalloc_deepbind.patch to fix various possible crashes (bnc#503151, bmo#493541) * Tue Jun 30 2009 wr@rosenauer.org - update to final 1.9.1.0 (20090623) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User lrupp@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c5 --- Comment #5 from Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> 2009-07-15 07:11:22 MDT --- FYI: disabling mozilla-jemalloc_deepbind.patch doesn't fix the problem... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User lrupp@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c6 Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |wolfgang@rosenauer.org Severity|Normal |Minor --- Comment #6 from Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> 2009-07-22 02:26:26 MDT --- Updated to MozillaFirefox-3.5.1-1.1 and mozilla-xulrunner190-1.9.0.12-4.1 today. Also rebooted the machine after 32 days uptime (no new kernel, but many other updates). Now everything works as expected. Maybe something was broken in MozillaFirefox-3.5 or maybe my machine had some problems after some network issues here in the company (but: everything else works). Wolfgang: if you like I can try to reproduce the problem with the original packages from comment #1 - otherwise I think we can close this. Your decision... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User wolfgang@rosenauer.org added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c7 Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|wolfgang@rosenauer.org | --- Comment #7 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2009-07-22 03:46:53 MDT --- I'm still a bit scared as the reason is not clear but investigating further is not really easy and probably unneeded. I'd prefer to close it until we see it again. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User wolfgang@rosenauer.org added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c8 Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #8 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2009-07-22 03:47:32 MDT --- FIXED but w/o a real "fix" so WFM -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User lrupp@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c9 Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WORKSFORME | --- Comment #9 from Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> 2009-08-25 02:25:55 MDT --- FYI: looks like the problem is not Firefox, but nscd related... Trying to start the latest firefox today, I get again: lrupp@nagios-abuild:~> firefox firefox: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:75: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `malloc_usable_size (netgrp->data) >= len + 1' failed. /usr/bin/firefox: line 128: 18974 Aborted $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" But now I looked a but further for the problem... The interesting detail is in dmesg: rpcbind: server machcd not responding, timed out resp. in /var/log/messages: Aug 24 20:52:49 linux-wsxp kernel: rpcbind: server machcd not responding, timed out So it looks like a RPC/Caching problem - first suspect application in this area: nscd nagios-abuild:~ # /etc/init.d/nscd status Checking for Name Service Cache Daemon: dead nagios-abuild:~ # /etc/init.d/nscd start Starting Name Service Cache Daemon done lrupp@nagios-abuild:~> firefox *** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable). ^^ firefox starts as expected. So I'll open a new bug against nscd in the next days, when I've debugged the problem a bit more. In the end, it's interesting for me that (at the moment) only firefox can't start if nscd is down. Up to you, Wolfgang, to decide if this is a bug in firefox or not. Other applications (KDE-Apps, Opera) work as expected, even if nscd is down.... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User pbaudis@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c10 --- Comment #10 from Petr Baudis <pbaudis@novell.com> 2009-08-25 02:48:50 MDT --- Well, if it works if nscd is running, it's hardly a nscd's fault...? ;-) This happens because then the netgrent resolution request (which ends up with this assertion failure) is handled within the application; if nscd is running, the application never does the lookup itself but instead asks nscd to do it, so it never enters this codepath. And nscd doesn't crash on the same assert()ion failure because it is not using custom malloc. I think in this case the best thing is to get rid of the troublesome assert() since it doesn't really serve any purpose. I'm just worried if there isn't more trouble lurking around from nss deepbinding... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551 User lrupp@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c11 --- Comment #11 from Lars Vogdt <lrupp@novell.com> 2009-08-25 09:53:50 MDT --- (In reply to comment #10)
Well, if it works if nscd is running, it's hardly a nscd's fault...? ;-)
No, not for sure. But that nscd can crash at all is something that didn't come into my mind... ;-) -- Configure bugmail: http://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=521551 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521551#c12 Martin Vogt <vogt@itwm.fhg.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |vogt@itwm.fhg.de --- Comment #12 from Martin Vogt <vogt@itwm.fhg.de> 2014-02-03 15:41:49 UTC --- Hello, I only want to confirm that the segfault is still present in SLED 11 SP3 with firefox-24-ESR in the year 2014. As soon as nscd is stopped ^w crashed firefox cannot be startet. I run on ~150 machines a cronjob which starts nscsd every minute, since, lets see, when I compiled the rpm for it: - Jun 2010 The bug was reported: - July 2009 We can soon celebrate the fith birthday of this firefox bug, or we can check if ncscd is now stable again. Back in 2010 it wasn't and this is true since SuSE 7.3 which was releases ~2000? Ncsd has even a longer tradition of being unstable, that firefox not able to start withouth ncsd. But we have a bit of luck, cron is stable: FTW: */1 * * * * root /etc/init.d/nscd start 2>&1 >/dev/null since 2010. regards, Martin -- 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.
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