firefox keeps crashing

[Brian Cluff]

Any chance you upgraded, but haven't rebooted lately.  I've had firefox 
crash on my like this in the past and a reboot, or at least a logout and 
back in got everything working fine again.

Brian Cluff


On 10/31/2016 02:53 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> ls -ld ~joe/.Xauthority ... returned this:
> -rw------- 1 joe joe 160 Oct 30 12:55 /home/joe/.Xauthority
>
> So, I tried both 'cat' and 'strings' to examine the contents
> and got these results:
>
> $ cat .Xauthority
> leno0MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1�=��ԃ���|W:���"C��s40MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1��qi)([H��N���Nleno10MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1��͜@�/r�@T�-
>
>
> $ strings .Xauthority
> leno
> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> qi)([H
> leno
> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
>
>
> ----------------
> Rusty last wrote (in part):
>> I did an strace of firefox on my Mint 17 x64 system,
>> and I'm going to guess that Joe's pc is running 32bit Mint
>> ... it LOOKS like you may be having trouble reading your
>> ~joe/.Xauthority file. Look at around line 1206.
>> Mine, while having a lot of differences (due to you starting
>> in safe mode, and being on a 32-bit), the logs stay pretty
>> close up to there, then it gets into a very long EAGAIN loop,
>> which finally ends with 'shutdown(6,2)'.
>>
>> However, it goes a long way after that looking like its sort
>> of working (again, hard to tell given that I'm reading logs
>> between a 64-bit and 32-bit Mint, and one firefox in normal
>> mode and one in safe mode).
>> Finally, around line 48,351 it gets VERY different, and I see
>> a 'SIGSEGV. It seems to be related to file descriptor 4, which
>> seems to perhaps be related to the X display.
>>
>> So, what does 'ls -ld ~joe/.Xauthority' say?  Mine is about
>> 353 bytes. Mode 600, owned by me.  How about yours?
>
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