Comment 17 for bug 124424

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Michael Moore (stuporglue) wrote :

Ok, I can reproduce this. I am fully up to date with Gutsy Tribe 5 as of September 5, 10:30 PM, Mountain Standard Time.

I moved my .mozilla folder aside and do the following:

1) Run firefox this way -- I can try another way if a dev prefers it
 /usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh -g /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -d gdb 2>&1 | tee gdb-firefox-crash.txt

2) Enter the debugging info into gdb as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace

3) I don't import any bookmarks from other browsers. (1st time setup because I moved ~/.mozilla)

4) Paste in URL http://www.et.byu.edu/groups/it466/schedule.htm

5) Double click "Google Concept Mapping" in the first notes cell. Firefox now crashes

6) Enter the rest of the gdb stuff from the wiki

At least tonight I can reproduce this crash every single time. :-)
Since I moved my .mozilla folder, I don't have any Firefox plugins installed. I also removed the flash and java plugins prior to running this test (it crashes exactly the same with them installed or not).

System notes:
P4 3 GHz, 1GB RAM
I think this box started as an Edgy box, but it might have been a Feisty beta.
I had turned the computer only only a few minutes before performing this test.
I do have a handfull of freebie fonts in my home directory, but none of them is DejaVu anything.

Other:
When I just run "firefox" from the command line, I get the following:

me@Elements:/tmp$ firefox

(gecko:9962): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Serif Oblique 11.9990234375'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
me@Elements:/tmp$

Please let me know what I can do. I don't have a ton of time, but could invest a couple of hours if it would help squash this bug. Konqueror is OK, but I miss Firefox.