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Re: icedove continues to crash regularly

From: Adam Hardy <adam.ant(at)cyberspaceroad.com>
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 06:57:53 EST


Ron Johnson on 19/02/08 14:57, wrote:

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> On 02/19/08 06:10, Adam Hardy wrote:

>> Ralph Katz on 18/02/08 20:25, wrote:
>>> On 02/18/2008 10:37 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>>> And while on the subject of Mozilla software, icedove has started
>>>> crashing on me. Roughly every 10 minutes it would be if I was using
>>>> icedove alone all the time.
>>>>
>>>> Where do I look for crash logs or other info? Is there an option setting
>>>> for logging more info? (I thought TB had a feedback mechanism, or is
>>>> that just FF?)
>>>>
>>>> There's nothing in /var/log/messages
>>>>
>>>> Nothing on mozillazine forum either.
>>>>
>>> Adam, you posted with icedove from etch. Are your crashes only AFTER
>>> the last security upgrade? Take a look at bug 465531 and add your
>>> comments there, too.
>>>
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465531
>> Doesn't look like that bug. I don't have problems starting or using it
>> for long periods. I ran it with strace following Ron's advice and after
>> sending a message (haven't established whether the email was actually
>> sent) icedove wiped out and left these skid marks on the terminal:
>>
>> [pid 20496]
>> open("/home/adam/.mozilla-thunderbird/e64jwld4.default/Mail/pop.1und1.com/popstate.dat",
>> O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 69
>> [pid 20496] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>> [pid 20496] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>> Process 20491 resumed
>> Process 20496 detached
>> [pid 23359] +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>> Process 23359 detached
>> [pid 20498] +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>> Process 20498 detached
>> [pid 20499] +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>> Process 20499 detached
>> [pid 21585] +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>> Process 21585 detached
>> [pid 23343] +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>> Process 23343 detached
>> Process 20496 detached
>> [pid 20491] open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3
>> [pid 20491] open("/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo",
>> O_RDONLY) = 3
>> [pid 20491] open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) =
>> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> [pid 20491] open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo",
>> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> /usr/lib/icedove/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 20496 Segmentation fault
>> "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
>> [pid 20491] --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
>> Process 20487 resumed
>> Process 20491 detached
>> --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
>> open("/home/adam/.icedove/init.d/",
>> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
>> or directory)
>> open("/usr/lib/icedove/init.d/",
>> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
>> or directory)
>> Process 20487 detached
>>
>>
>> Another bug? Or my system?
> 
> Since you're the only one who seems to be having these problems, I'd
> start looking at your box.  Specifically, bad RAM is what I'd first
> test for.

I ran several iterations of memtest86 without errors on my RAM.

I updated all packages in etch to today.

Icedove just crashed again. I remember I had a problem like this a couple of years ago with the mozilla suite email reader, which kept crashing every time I opened a mangled Russian or Korean spam email, and unfortunately it was completely unreproducible and was never solved by the mozilla bug squashers. (When I tried forwarding the dodgy email to a developer, it wouldn't have the same effect). Hopefully this isn't the start of something similar.

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