Debian Bug report logs - #834995
firefox: Crashes at startup on non-local display

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Package: firefox; Maintainer for firefox is Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>; Source for firefox is src:firefox (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 11:45:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed-upstream

Found in version firefox/49.0~b1-1

Forwarded to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296935

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Bug#834995; Package firefox. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 11:45:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 11:45:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: firefox: Crashes at startup on non-local display
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:41:40 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Package: firefox
Version: 49.0~b1-1
Severity: important

Hello,

After upgrading firefox from 48.0-1 to 49.0~b1-1  it segfaults at startup
when $DISPLAY is not "owned" by the user running firefox. This shows up
e.g. when running through ssh adifferentuser@localhost or with su - and
manual setting of DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY.

At the time of crash a "Firefox Update" window is open. (See attached
screenshot).

gdb backtrace (with MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1) attached.

cu Andreas

-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Clear Search 2
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi
Package: firefox
Status: enabled

Name: Download YouTube Videos as MP4
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{b9bfaf1c-a63f-47cd-8b9a-29526ced9060}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Multi-process staged rollout
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Pocket
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

Name: Web Compat
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Shockwave Flash (11.2.202.632)
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  firefox        49.0~b1-1    amd64        Mozilla Firefox web browser

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.5
ii  libasound2                1.1.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.23-4
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.10.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.106-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2+b1
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-4
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.5
ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.1.1-11
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.48.1-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.30-4
ii  libhunspell-1.4-0         1.4.1-2
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.12-2
ii  libnss3                   2:3.25-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.13.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                6.1.1-11
ii  libvpx3                   1.5.0-4
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.2-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.9-2
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.12-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

firefox recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firefox suggests:
pn  fonts-lmodern          <none>
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-3
pn  libgnomeui-0           <none>
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.14.3+dfsg-1
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information
-- 
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
[screenshot.png (image/png, attachment)]
[firefox.dbg.txt.gz (application/gzip, attachment)]

Information forwarded to [email protected], Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>:
Bug#834995; Package firefox. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:09:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:09:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>
To: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#834995: firefox: Crashes at startup on non-local display
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:04:56 +0200
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Could you share the crash id (you can find it in about:crashes)? Thanks

Le 21 août 2016 13:45, "Andreas Metzler" <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Package: firefox
> Version: 49.0~b1-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> After upgrading firefox from 48.0-1 to 49.0~b1-1  it segfaults at startup
> when $DISPLAY is not "owned" by the user running firefox. This shows up
> e.g. when running through ssh adifferentuser@localhost or with su - and
> manual setting of DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY.
>
> At the time of crash a "Firefox Update" window is open. (See attached
> screenshot).
>
> gdb backtrace (with MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1) attached.
>
> cu Andreas
>
> -- Package-specific info:
>
> -- Extensions information
> Name: Clear Search 2
> Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
> Status: enabled
>
> Name: Default theme
> Location: /usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-
> 4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi
> Package: firefox
> Status: enabled
>
> Name: Download YouTube Videos as MP4
> Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{b9bfaf1c-a63f-47cd-8b9a-29526ced9060}.xpi
> Status: enabled
>
> Name: Multi-process staged rollout
> Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
> Status: enabled
>
> Name: Pocket
> Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
> Status: enabled
>
> Name: Web Compat
> Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
> Status: enabled
>
> -- Plugins information
> Name: Shockwave Flash (11.2.202.632)
> Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
> Status: enabled
>
>
> -- Addons package information
> ii  firefox        49.0~b1-1    amd64        Mozilla Firefox web browser
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages firefox depends on:
> ii  debianutils               4.8
> ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.5
> ii  libasound2                1.1.2-1
> ii  libatk1.0-0               2.20.0-1
> ii  libc6                     2.23-4
> ii  libcairo2                 1.14.6-1+b1
> ii  libdbus-1-3               1.10.10-1
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.106-1
> ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2+b1
> ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-4
> ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.5
> ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3+b1
> ii  libgcc1                   1:6.1.1-11
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.34.0-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.48.1-2
> ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.30-4
> ii  libhunspell-1.4-0         1.4.1-2
> ii  libnspr4                  2:4.12-2
> ii  libnss3                   2:3.25-1
> ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.1-1
> ii  libsqlite3-0              3.13.0-1
> ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
> ii  libstdc++6                6.1.1-11
> ii  libvpx3                   1.5.0-4
> ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.3-1
> ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
> ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b1
> ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
> ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.2-1
> ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.9-2
> ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
> ii  procps                    2:3.3.12-2
> ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> firefox recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages firefox suggests:
> pn  fonts-lmodern          <none>
> pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
> ii  libcanberra0           0.30-3
> pn  libgnomeui-0           <none>
> ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.14.3+dfsg-1
> pn  mozplugger             <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
> --
> `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
> so grateful to you.'
> `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
>
[Message part 2 (text/html, inline)]

Information forwarded to [email protected], Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>:
Bug#834995; Package firefox. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:21:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:21:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
To: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#834995: firefox: Crashes at startup on non-local display
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:17:17 +0200
On 2016-08-21 Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> wrote:
> Could you share the crash id (you can find it in about:crashes)? Thanks

> Le 21 août 2016 13:45, "Andreas Metzler" <[email protected]> a écrit :
[...]


Hello Sylvestre,

Looks like that is impossible, I guess the startup fails before the
crash handler has a chance.

I have tried this:
1 install 48.0-1
2 start firefox (successfully) and exit it
3 upgrade to 49.0~b1-1 again
4 try to start firefox, it crashes
5 downgrade to 48.0-1 to be able to open "about:crashes"
6 start firefox, enter about:crashes in URL bar - > "The address isn’t
  valid"

cu Andreas
-- 
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'



Information forwarded to [email protected], Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>:
Bug#834995; Package firefox. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:27:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:27:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>
To: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#834995: firefox: Crashes at startup on non-local display
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:25:46 +0200
Le 21/08/2016 à 14:17, Andreas Metzler a écrit :
> On 2016-08-21 Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Could you share the crash id (you can find it in about:crashes)? Thanks
>> Le 21 août 2016 13:45, "Andreas Metzler" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> [...]
>
>
> Hello Sylvestre,
>
> Looks like that is impossible, I guess the startup fails before the
> crash handler has a chance.
>
> I have tried this:
> 1 install 48.0-1
> 2 start firefox (successfully) and exit it
> 3 upgrade to 49.0~b1-1 again
> 4 try to start firefox, it crashes
> 5 downgrade to 48.0-1 to be able to open "about:crashes"
> 6 start firefox, enter about:crashes in URL bar - > "The address isn’t
>    valid"
>
OK, I guess it is disabled in the debian package.
Could you report a bug upstream?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Thanks,
S




Information forwarded to [email protected], Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>:
Bug#834995; Package firefox. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 16:03:21 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>. (Sun, 21 Aug 2016 16:03:21 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #25 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#834995: firefox: Crashes at startup on non-local display
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:00:09 +0200
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296935

On 2016-08-21 Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> OK, I guess it is disabled in the debian package.
> Could you report a bug upstream?
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

[x] Done.

cu Andreas
-- 
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'



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