FS#36714 - Firefox and Thunderbird fail to start

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Luke McCarthy (shaurz) - Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 22:39 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 30 September 2013, 06:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When I try to start Firefox or Thunderbird they fail with the following error:

(process:1055): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed
###!!! ABORT: XINERAMAIsActive: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error): file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
###!!! ABORT: XINERAMAIsActive: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error): file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Monday, 30 September 2013, 06:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  catalyst is in Unsupported
Comment by Luke McCarthy (shaurz) - Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 22:40 GMT
Here is a gdb traceback:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff5d7317a in mozalloc_abort(char const*) () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozalloc.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff5d7317a in mozalloc_abort(char const*) () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozalloc.so
#1 0x00007ffff4a5d12e in NS_DebugBreak_P () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#2 0x00007ffff3dd57a2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#3 0x00007ffff05da1fb in _XError () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#4 0x00007ffff05d7257 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#5 0x00007ffff05d8312 in _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#6 0x00007fffec2af297 in XineramaIsActive () from /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1
#7 0x00007ffff46bf0b4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#8 0x00007ffff46bf324 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#9 0x00007ffff49ff2e2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#10 0x00007ffff49fcffc in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#11 0x00007ffff4252cd2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#12 0x00007ffff42489f3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#13 0x00007ffff4a657ba in NS_InvokeByIndex_P () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#14 0x00007ffff44a8f17 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#15 0x00007ffff44ae2b3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#16 0x00007ffff4cc3351 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#17 0x00007ffff4cc3cb1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#18 0x00007ffff4cdf400 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#19 0x00007ffff4cb4a32 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#20 0x00007ffff4cc325d in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#21 0x00007ffff4cc34e1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#22 0x00007ffff4cc3815 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#23 0x00007ffff4c317c4 in JS_CallFunctionValue () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#24 0x00007ffff422d966 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#25 0x00007ffff429b09a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#26 0x00007ffff4127942 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#27 0x00007ffff4127b2f in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#28 0x00007ffff413e01c in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#29 0x00007ffff413e14f in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#30 0x00007ffff413e8af in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#31 0x00007ffff3f1cf72 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#32 0x00007ffff4551098 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#33 0x00007ffff4552b7b in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#34 0x00007ffff455e417 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#35 0x00007ffff455f5ca in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#36 0x00007ffff455f824 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#37 0x00007ffff455fae1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#38 0x00007ffff3de7ff3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#39 0x00007ffff4093e9a in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#40 0x00007ffff4093eb4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#41 0x00007ffff4a57b95 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#42 0x00007ffff4a2d704 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#43 0x00007ffff459bd90 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#44 0x00007ffff457cbbb in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#45 0x00007ffff457cf58 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#46 0x00007ffff4a657ba in NS_InvokeByIndex_P () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#47 0x00007ffff44a8f17 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#48 0x00007ffff44ae100 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#49 0x00007ffff4cc3351 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#50 0x00007ffff4cbc949 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#51 0x00007ffff4cc325d in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#52 0x00007ffff4cc34e1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#53 0x00007ffff4cc3815 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#54 0x00007ffff4c317c4 in JS_CallFunctionValue () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#55 0x00007ffff44a4679 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#56 0x00007ffff449ff6e in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#57 0x00007ffff4a66346 in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#58 0x00007ffff4a658cb in ?? () from /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
#59 0x00007fffe4986260 in ?? ()
#60 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Comment by Luke McCarthy (shaurz) - Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 22:47 GMT
This seems to be a problem with upgrading catalyst and xorg-server. When I downgraded back to xorg-server 1.13 it is now working again. Still seems odd that Firefox would fail in this way when other applications (such as Chrome) worked fine.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 29 August 2013, 07:25 GMT
This is caused by issues with catalyst driver. Don't know how you installed them, but using google on your error shows several issues on multiple distributions. We can't fix catalyst as it's a binary driver.

Probably you're best off with the unofficial vi0l0 catalyst repository as described on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst
Comment by Claire Farron (clfarron4) - Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 13:44 GMT
Currently using Catalyst 13.6 and Xorg 1.14 and having no problems with Firefox and Thunderbird.

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