firefox is regularly dying

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> Subject: Re: firefox is regularly dying
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 10:35 AM
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Christopher Beland wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 21:25 -0400, Robert L Cochran
> wrote:
> > > Internet Keywords in Firefox are enabled by
> default for Fedora
> > > 11's flavor of Firefox, which means that the
> Domain Guessing
> > > feature is disabled. If domain guessing is
> disabled, Firefox will
> > > not prepend or append domain prefixes or
> suffixes.
> >
> > I don't think so; with
> firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64, I can
> > type just "linux-kvm.org" or even
> "linux-kvm" and get the right
> > page.
> 
>   we've tracked down the problem:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495454
> 
> it had nothing to do with internet keywords, it was a
> radeon driver
> acceleration issue and you can read the workaround there.
> 
> rday
> --
> 
> p.s.  and while i'm here, francois cami suggested i
> upgrade the bios
> on this system as a possible solution.  i checked, and my
> current bios
> version is phoenix 9D.03.  and i can see a newer version
> here --
> 9D.05:
> 
> http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=21980&dscr=BIOS%20flash%20Version%209D.05%2005/23/2008
> 
> so how *does* one upgrade the bios from fedora
> conveniently?
> curiously, in all my years of working with red hat/fedora,
> i've never
> had to do that.
> 
> rday
> --

Robert,

I have run my own tests, and conclude that there has to be something wrong with firefox.  Why?

I am using konqueror and recently got opera and both are working beautifully as of right now.  I started firefox from command line and I got 

/usr/lib64/firefox-3.1b3/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 3204 Segmentation fault
"$prog" ${1+"$@"} 

I tried in safe-mode and the machine froze.  Two times already.  I won't even bother testing another time.  There has to be something wrong.  

I have ati radeon driver and it is OK I believe.  Why does opera work and konqueror but not firefox?

[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
radeon 0000:01:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ATOM BIOS: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 for Shiner DVI                                       
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=131072K, accessible=131072K, BAR=131072K
i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block.
radeon 0000:01:05.0: DVI-D-1: no EDID data
allocated ffff8800355ae000 1280x1024 fb: 0x00040000, bo ffff880037826540
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64

Only wierd thing I am seeing is the following:
but completely unrelated:

setroubleshootd[2488] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff6ce7ef00 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2520] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff6f406210 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2523] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fffd481a8a0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2536] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fffe9bcfc50 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2538] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff183f0470 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2566] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff000430c0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2584] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fffce3cd450 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2589] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fffb77a2820 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2591] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff8bcdf2c0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2596] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff941f1270 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
__ratelimit: 10 callbacks suppressed
setroubleshootd[2633] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff7fa78af0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2637] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fffb3799560 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2642] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff57bfdc80 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2649] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff3329f320 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2653] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fffb5e04e80 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
setroubleshootd[2656] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff0ccb48f0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2658] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7ffff6c67ce0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2660] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fffb05495d0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2663] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7ffffc783800 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]
setroubleshootd[2704] general protection ip:3d96a99884 sp:7fff106486c0 error:0 in libpython2.6.so.1.0[3d96a00000+169000]

Regards,

Antonio