On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:16:53AM +0800, Li He wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 3.5.6-1 > Severity: important > > I am suffering from the random crashes of iceweasel possibly from 3.5.x > versions. > I tried many of them, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 and now 3.5.6. They all > crash > randomly. I googled many times and I found there are guys reporting similar > bugs. > Some of them are even told their claimed bug is fixed but to my own experience > iceweasel never stops this random crashes. > > First I tried to create a new profile, since it is said the old profile might > include something that crashes the program. But soon I found out the crash > still > occurs. > > Later I found someone says you might create an empty ~/.mozilla. So I removed > my > ~/.mozilla and start up an iceweasel without any extensions or plugins. But > all > of a sudden, the browser crashed again. > > So I think it has nothing to do with plugins or extensions. It is simply from > iceweasel itself. Don't tell me it has anything to do with the kernel. During > this period, 2.6.29, 2.6.30, 2.6.31(-trunk) and now 2.6.32-trunk. And the > driver, > someone says the video driver might cause trouble. But if I remember well, > I did configured it properly (with radeon for ATI X1400 on a T60 thinkpad). > > I can't trace with iceweasel -g option (with iceweasel-dbg and xulrunner-dbg > installed). I can see there is a gdb process after executing the command but > I wait for 5-6 minutes and nothing happens (the harddisk was not even reading > anything). I did try without iceweasel-dbg some time earlier. The tracing was > not successful gdb only provided very limited information, which is almost > identical to some earlier bug report. > > This random crash happens when a tab is closed, either by clicking the x on > top of the tab or press Ctrl-W. The gdb will claim there is a seg fault due to > an image (if I remember well). If I restart the firefox, sometimes it will > notify me to restore the last session due to a crash but sometimes it will > simply restore the session without any notification (as if nothing happens). > > I am very serious about this problem since I can't bear it any more. Just > think > about it. Every 10-20 minites surfing the web, the browser crashes and you > have > to restart it. In Windows, this never happens. If any more information is > demanded > I will try to provide ASAP. But so far, I just got this simple description. > > Sometimes I even suspect that the crash is caused by my input method. But now > I think I am wrong about it. I tried ibus and scim. Browers like arora do have > some conflicts with ibus. They crash when I type with ibus triggered. But this > never happens with iceweasel, with neither scim nor ibus.
Could you try the instructions in /usr/share/bug/iceweasel/presubj, most notably, the one to disable plugins. Thanks Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
