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Iceweasel randomly crashes in wheezy

I've upgraded from stable to testing. In stable, iceweasel performed flawlessly as I expected. Now it crashes at random times at an alarming rate. It does seem that I can recreate the crash to an extent on youtube, where crashes are the most prevalent.

I haven't located any bug reports regarding this issue with wheezy iceweasel.

I am not seeing this, yet I am using the version from experimental.

Running from CLI leaves "segmentation fault" as the only clue after the crash. :scratch:

Run iceweasel from the command line and look for error-messages.

The only error I get in the terminal is

Quote:

segmentation fault

There doesn't appear to be a pre-existing bug report about this. (There is one regarding a seg fault when attempting to access a certain website, but my problem is more generalized)

I checked sid's packages to see if I could just grab a newer version, but it would appear sid and wheezy have the same iceweasel. Maybe I will grab the older one from squeeze.

Why don't you report the bug and help Debian and Mozilla fix it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01 (Post 4293005)

Why don't you report the bug and help Debian and Mozilla fix it?

I plan on it, but I'm more interested in getting my iceweasel working again first. ;)

Delete your old profile, make a new one, test it and once done, configure it.
This is done by issuing a simple "iceweasel -profilemanager" at a terminal or at your DE's run dialog.

No issues here with the newer Iceweasel 4rc.

$ apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
Installed: 4.0~rc1-1
Candidate: 4.0~rc1-1
Version table:
*** 4.0~rc1-1 0
500 http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental/iceweasel-4.0 i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.5.17-1 0
500 http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages

I installed Chromium the other day and lo and behold, it randomly crashes as well. Like iceweasel, the only clue the terminal gives me is

Code:

segmentation fault

It would appear the problem lies with another package that these web browsers have in common. I will be filing a bug report shortly, and perhaps limping back to squeeze for a while.

What version of Chromium?

I use both (iceweasel 4 and Chromium 9) and have not had the difficulty you are describing.

Chromium 6.0.472.63~r59945-5
Iceweasel 3.5.17-1

I realise your in Testing (Wheezy) but Squeeze has had a security update recently that may help to fix the issue.

I installed Squeeze, upgraded to Wheezy then upgraded to sid, no issues with Iceweasel, Firefox, Chrome 10.0.648.82 beta, Opera 11.10.2048, midori 0.3.3-0.1,uzbl 0.0.0~git.20110314-1.

Try installing iceweasel-dbg - debugging symbols for iceweasel, then running Iceweasel from a terminal.

Same random crashes, after an update lately, but I can't figure which package has done it. Crashes also with gmail, which is really annoying. Konqueror runs well, but gmail is in simple-html mode.
Running Wheezy, Iceweasel 3.5.17-1. System up-to-date.
running iceweasel with debugging symbols (iceweasel -g --sync) I get

Code:

Starting program: /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin --sync

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

[New Thread 0xb5affb70 (LWP 10045)]

[New Thread 0xb52f7b70 (LWP 10046)]

[New Thread 0xb47ffb70 (LWP 10047)]

[New Thread 0xb3dffb70 (LWP 10051)]

[New Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10052)]

[New Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10053)]

[Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10052) exited]

[Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10053) exited]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10054)]

[New Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10055)]

[Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10055) exited]

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10054) exited]

[New Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10057)]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10058)]

[New Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10059)]

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10058) exited]

[Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10059) exited]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10060)]

[New Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10061)]

[New Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10062)]

[New Thread 0xa9abbb70 (LWP 10063)]

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10060) exited]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10065)]

[New Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10066)]

[Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10066) exited]

[New Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10068)]

[Thread 0xb3dffb70 (LWP 10051) exited]

The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.

This probably reflects a bug in the program.

The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.

  (Details: serial 66481 error_code 1 request_code 139 minor_code 39)

  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;

  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.

  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line

  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful

  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10065) exited]

[Thread 0xa9abbb70 (LWP 10063) exited]

[Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10062) exited]

[Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10061) exited]

[Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10057) exited]

[Thread 0xb47ffb70 (LWP 10047) exited]

[Thread 0xb52f7b70 (LWP 10046) exited]

[Thread 0xb5affb70 (LWP 10045) exited]

[Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10068) exited]



Program exited with code 01.

Did anyone manage to fix it?

Well, seems NOT to be same issue as the posted one as it does not segfault, but crashes on gmail, youtube and some flash using sites.
gdk_xerror() function (showed up in error message) seems not existent.
I was going to report bug but found out that running "MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1 iceweasel" hides the problem. Disabling shockwave flash player r153 seems to make it stable again. Still, dunno what gmail and shockwave player have in common... but seems somewhat related to that plugin.
Running flashplugin-nonfree 1:2.8.3 and flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound 0.0.svn2431-3 from debian multimedia.
What can I do now to keep a nice (working) flash plugin?

No luck here. A fresh reinstallation using the weekly "testing" snapshot fixed the problem, but obviously a full reinstall is a big deal.

...... Still having this problem on Iceweasel and Chromium, the strange thing is that with konqueror flash works fine....
I am sort of getting mad at this...

If it doesn't crash in Safe-mode then it could be either bad extension/theme or a plugin like flash or java causing the problems.

Try installing iceweasel-dbg then run iceweasel from a terminal and post any errors you get when/if it crashes.

No issues here with Iceweasel 4.0-3, Firefox 4, Chrome 12.0.742.9-r82820 , Opera 11.10.2092, Midori or Konqueror 4:4.6.1-0r5.

Shockwave Flash

File: /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.2 r159

Very strange: I get

Code:

$ iceweasel -g --sync

GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-debian

Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"

and "show warranty" for details.

This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".

For bug reporting instructions, please see:

<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...

Reading symbols from /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

But I have installed iceweasel-dbg!!

Anyway I've tried it a couple of weeks ago, and i got:

Quote:

Originally Posted by StriDer999999999 (Post 4309002)

Code:

Starting program: /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin --sync

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

[New Thread 0xb5affb70 (LWP 10045)]

[New Thread 0xb52f7b70 (LWP 10046)]

[New Thread 0xb47ffb70 (LWP 10047)]

[New Thread 0xb3dffb70 (LWP 10051)]

[New Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10052)]

[New Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10053)]

[Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10052) exited]

[Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10053) exited]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10054)]

[New Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10055)]

[Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10055) exited]

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10054) exited]

[New Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10057)]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10058)]

[New Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10059)]

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10058) exited]

[Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10059) exited]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10060)]

[New Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10061)]

[New Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10062)]

[New Thread 0xa9abbb70 (LWP 10063)]

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10060) exited]

[New Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10065)]

[New Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10066)]

[Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10066) exited]

[New Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10068)]

[Thread 0xb3dffb70 (LWP 10051) exited]

The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.

This probably reflects a bug in the program.

The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.

  (Details: serial 66481 error_code 1 request_code 139 minor_code 39)

  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;

  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.

  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line

  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful

  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

[Thread 0xb22fdb70 (LWP 10065) exited]

[Thread 0xa9abbb70 (LWP 10063) exited]

[Thread 0xb2afeb70 (LWP 10062) exited]

[Thread 0xb32ffb70 (LWP 10061) exited]

[Thread 0xb1afcb70 (LWP 10057) exited]

[Thread 0xb47ffb70 (LWP 10047) exited]

[Thread 0xb52f7b70 (LWP 10046) exited]

[Thread 0xb5affb70 (LWP 10045) exited]

[Thread 0xa90ffb70 (LWP 10068) exited]



Program exited with code 01.

Did anyone manage to fix it?

Only difference is that now I have Iceweasel 3.5.18-1 and flashplugin v10.2 r159.
Could it be an issue with hw acceleration and flash?

Hi,
having the same issues (random crashes) with iceweasel 3.5.18 and wheezy
Linux xxx 2.6.38-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Apr 7 05:24:21 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

Noticed that it often crashes when I log in into yahoo-mail.

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnmurdoch (Post 4347579)

First I don't use web mail at all so this may not help.

Are you update/upgrading your system regularly? My Iceweasel is 3.6.10 running on Debian testing, just what has come down from the repos.

My Iceweasel still hasn't caused any issues and it is the latest version available. Do you have any add-ons installed John? If yes what ones and did you use the Mozilla add-on or install them by Synaptic?

Chromium, the latest version available from Debian, is starting to be a little buggy.

As I posted before, I have this problem on a regularly updated Debian Testing (using also testing-proposed-updates.
I believe it's some issue of the flashplugin-nonfree (installed by Synaptic, plugin version 10.2 r159). When I disable that, does not crash. Also tryed with other browsers (opera chromium and other mozilla flavors) and all have the same issues, but Konqueror (netscape like) runs fine.
I tried to cancel cookies and no improvement. What's this all about? anybody has a clue?

@Widget Where did you get that Iceweasel version from? Testing version is at 3.5.18-1..

Quote:

Originally Posted by StriDer999999999 (Post 4348193)

Hmm. Had to check that out. You certainly appear to be correct. Indeed I find no use of this version mentioned in any Debian version.

I think I actually went ot the Iceweasel site some months ago and got it. Completely for got this until you pointed this out. I am sorry for misinformation.

The only excuse is geezerhood.

It does work quite well though. I have had some problems with BBC video on full screen refusing to let go.

Quote:

Originally Posted by widget (Post 4347794)

First I don't use web mail at all so this may not help.

Are you update/upgrading your system regularly? My Iceweasel is 3.6.10 running on Debian testing, just what has come down from the repos.

Yes, I update/upgrade daily (testing) and only using the repo-ice weasel.
Plus, my iceweasel version is also 3.5.18 (same situation as user Strider).

My problem seems to have vanished, after an update done yesterday.
I upgraded testing packages as usual, and noted nvidia-vdpau-driver to be installed, along with libgl1-nvidia-alternatives and libglx-nvidia-alternatives upgrade. I had to reinstall nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx as it was removed by the vdpau drive install. Was not removed after reinstalling, anyways my nvidia gpu (old one,geforce FX 5600) restarted to work normally...
So I tried to re-enable shockwave-flash plugin (I noticed before that disabling flash plugin prevented crash), as I always do with a display or iceweasel related update, testing if the flash related crashes were gone and ... Yes, Now i can run flash videos and swf websites without iceweasel crashing.
Hope this helps someone. Thread SOLVED for me