firefox crashing

[Geran]

Hi,

I'm recently having some firefox crashing issues. They come very often. I've tried rebooting. Whenever I try to run firefox from the terminal to get a glimpse at the error, it just outputs "Aborted.".

Any help?

thanks a lot,

G

[Geran]

Anyone? I think this is a common problem recently, but I haven't been able to find a good solution anywhere....

[Geran]

I'm sure there's a good way to do this with reinstalling...

[Geran]

can anyone point me to the solution?

[Vantrax]

try running it with strace in front

ie
strace firefox

should give you an idea where its crashing out.

[Geran]

When I run strace firefox I get this output repeated many times over.

read(15, 0x8e47964, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
select(16, [15], [15], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [15])
writev(15, [{"\17\0\2\0\2\0\240\0", 8}], 1) = 8
select(16, [15], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [15])
read(15, "\1iC\1\0\0\0\0k\0\0\0\1\0\240\0\0\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\0 \0\0"..., 4096) = 32


And it doesn't seem to end.

[gb5757870]

Hey, just to confirm that I am getting very similar behaviour. Can't seem to place any pattern. Even after rebooting.

Also ran the "strace firefox" and get the same as you do.

[Geran]

can we get any suggestions as to a solution?

[drodiger]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1003357

This is my post with the same problem and explanation of the problem (at least I think) :-)

[gb5757870]

Thanks for letting us know the bug has been lodged. Hopefully it will be sorted out as driving me up the wall