Bug#608893: epiphany-browser: Epiphany immediately crashes upon launching: Segmentation fault

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:11:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 07:12 -0600, Steven Sciame a écrit : 
> > Package: epiphany-browser
> > Version: 2.22.3-9
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > Upon startup, epiphany browser asks if I would like to recover crashed 
> > windows and tabs.  If I choose either option, epiphany immediately 
> > crashes.  This seemed to start happening after updating yesterday so I 
> > suspect that might have something to do with it.  
> > I tried to adduser to my system, but the browser crashed in the new user 
> > account as well.  
> 
> Could you have a look in dpkg.log at which packages were upgraded at
> that time and downgrade the suspicious ones? They would be:
> 
> > ii  libcairo2           1.8.8-2~bpo50+1      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
> > ii  libglib2.0-0        2.22.4-1~bpo50+1     The GLib library of C routines
> > ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.18.6-1~bpo50+1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
> > ii  libnspr4-0d         4.8.6-1~bpo50+1      NetScape Portable Runtime Library
> 
> My bets go to libnspr, since the xulrunner version in lenny loads a
> different version of the library in the same address space.

I doubt that, you can't install more than one version of libnspr4-0d at the
same time, and xulrunner uses that.

Mike