Firefox 3.0.6 segfault

[Bill Moseley]

I've rarely (if not never) had segfaults with Firefox.  But, wouldn't
you know it I set up my father with an up-to-date 8.10 Ubuntu and all
is working fine until this morning when Firefox just dies every time
it tries to start.

I removed the sessionstore.js file out of the way and it allowed
firefox to start.  But, it wasn't long before I saw it happen again.

I did capture a quick strace.  Think libtotem-gmp-plugin.so is a
likely candidate?

What else should I look for?


gettimeofday({1235837502, 661962}, NULL) = 0
open("/home/bill/.local/share/mime/video/x-flv.xml", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1
open("/usr/local/share/mime/video/x-flv.xml", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT
open("/usr/share/mime/video/x-flv.xml", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 60
fstat64(60, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1652, ...}) = 0
read(60, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ut"..., 1652) = 1652
close(60)                               = 0
access("/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so", F_OK) = 0
open("/usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so", O_RDONLY) = 60
read(60, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20x\0\000"..., 512) =
fstat64(60, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=104676, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 103900, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 60, 0) = 0xb
mmap2(0xb02fa000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRIT
close(60)                               = 0
mprotect(0xb02fa000, 4096, PROT_READ)   = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
unlink("/home/bill/.mozilla/firefox/ti896i1k.default/lock") = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [SEGV], NULL, 8) = 0
tgkill(16443, 16443, SIGSEGV)           = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Process 16443 detached



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Bill Moseley
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