On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:43:21PM +0200, Bert Verbeek wrote: > On Thursday 06 April 2006 23:10, you wrote: > > strace -s99 -ff -o/tmp/firefox-strace -p > > Hello Justin, > > I send you this mail privately without sending a copy to the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] adress. It will get too messy, I think. Huh? WHy?
> It is getting stranger and stranger ... > > I did the following to find out wether I missed some files in /tmp you asked > for, I thought I only saw one, not more for every thread, as you said. > > First I checked in my history file if I used -ff to the trace command. I did, > then: > > ps aux | grep firefox > > ------------- > bert 14125 2.7 2.5 98236 26564 ? Sl 13:14 > 0:01 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox > bert 14157 0.0 0.0 1952 632 pts/3 S+ 13:15 0:00 grep firefox > ------------- > > strace -s99 -ff -o/tmp/firefox-strace -p 14125 > > placed my mouse over the firefox window to input some keystrokes, then strace > aborted directly with: > > ---- > Process 14138 attached with 4 threads - interrupt to quit > Process 14138 detached > Process 14125 detached > Process 14134 detached > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (top): 0x0807b5d0 *** > ----- > > only one file in /tmp which reads, I really don't understand this; you're strace output is all garbled, and perhaps has all the threads into a single file... Please also try the strace with: G_SLICE=always-malloc strace -s99 -ff -o/tmp/firefox-strace -p (firefoxPid) and see if it still aborts; if it does, then try now to get a backtrace when it aborts, by getting a core file by setting ulimit -c unlimited, and then running gdb /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin ./core (assuming the file is called just "core"). > I'm willing to spend more time in this problem, but numerous things can be > tested from here on. Is it a good idea I first set up a fresh Debian testing > release installation on a spare disk partition? and test it further from > there? You might do that, or just the chroot idea I suggested. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
