Bug#630589: reproducible crash after connecting to a running iceweasel

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:34:43PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.19-2
> Severity: important
> 
> To reproduce the crash:
> 1. Run iceweasel.
> 2. Run a second instance on some URL. The URL is opened, but this
>    second instance crashes (making scripts using iceweasel fail to
>    behave correctly).
> 
> This crash *always* occurs under these conditions.
> 
> ypig:~> iceweasel -g http://localhost/
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> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin http://localhost/
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Unable to create nspr log file '~/.mozprofile/nspr.log'
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> getenv (name=0x7fffe59b09cf "LGRIND") at getenv.c:84
> 84      getenv.c: No such file or directory.
>         in getenv.c

This is most likely the same thing as bug 487785, but due to an addition
that was made after the fix for that bug.

Can you try the following patch:

diff --git a/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp b/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp
index c797770..6b899c2 100644
--- a/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp
+++ b/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp
@@ -2580,7 +2580,7 @@ XRE_main(int argc, char* argv[], const nsXREAppData* aAppData)
   }
 
   // Suppress atk-bridge init at startup, it works after GNOME 2.24.2
-  PR_SetEnv("NO_AT_BRIDGE=1");
+  SaveToEnv("NO_AT_BRIDGE=1");
 #endif
 
 #ifndef WINCE

Mike