Public bug reported: Mint 13 32-bit: Firefox 39.0 crashes right on startup with the error message printed twice: " [NPAPI 8734] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/firefox-ALgUKk/firefox-39.0+build5/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1597"
This affects the Firefox package Firefox 39.0-build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 provided by the Ubuntu Mozilla Security team. The problematic file in the firefox package seems to be the file libxul.so. This is where the crash actually occurs. Note: -------- This crash seems to happen on any 32-bit version of Linux Mint 13. It does not seem, however, to affect Ubuntu 12.04.x 32-bit, on which Mint 13 32-bit is based. The file libxul.so installed as part of Firefox 39.0-build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is dated 29-Jun 2015 14:19. The file libxul.so that comes as part of the genuine Mozilla tarball has got the date 01-Jul-2015 02:49. Replacing the libxul.so installed through the PPA by the genuine Mozilla file solves the isse, as far as I can test and tell. For more details, please, see this report in the Linux Mint forum: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=199433 (Mint 13: Firefox 39.0 crashes right on startup) It would be greatly appreciated if this problem could by investigated and hopefully solved before Firefox 39.0 will be made available on the normal Ubuntu repos, because this is where Mint13, too, like Ubuntu 12.0.4x, fetches most of it software from. And up to Firefox 38.0, the Ubuntu provided Firefox has always run perfectly fine on Mint 13, too. --- Requested details: (1) ~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Linux Mint 13 Maya Release: 13 ~$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="12.04.5 LTS, Precise Pangolin" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu precise (12.04.5 LTS)" VERSION_ID="12.04" ~$ (2) ~$ apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installiert: 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 Kandidat: 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 Versionstabelle: *** 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main i386 Packages 11.0+build1-0ubuntu4 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages (3) Firefox 39 should start up as Firefox 38 did (4) Yet, instead it crashes on startup all you can do is decide to send a bug report or not. No chance of using Firefox 39. ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1471565 Title: Mint 13: Firefox 39.0 crashes right on startup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1471565/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
