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firefox nightly crashes on every attempt to open a URL so I did a health check refresh and its still crashing on any attempt to goto any and every URL

56.0a1 (2017-06-25) (64-bit)

doing the Help -> restart with addons disabled -> Refresh Nightly does not help still getting a crash when attempting to do anything including attempting to goto Help -> submit feedback yet even that crashes firefox nightly using above version

getting crashes even after doing Help -> restart with addons disabled -> Start in Safe Mode

I've been away for a few months yet firefox nightly was working fine this morning. After doing the normal update it was brought to firefox nightly 55 and was still OK then it did another update to version 56 then these crashes started

needless to say I submitted this report using a different browser than ff

How to do a more powerful reset ?

firefox nightly crashes on every attempt to open a URL so I did a health check refresh and its still crashing on any attempt to goto any and every URL 56.0a1 (2017-06-25) (64-bit) doing the Help -> restart with addons disabled -> Refresh Nightly does not help still getting a crash when attempting to do anything including attempting to goto Help -> submit feedback yet even that crashes firefox nightly using above version getting crashes even after doing Help -> restart with addons disabled -> Start in Safe Mode I've been away for a few months yet firefox nightly was working fine this morning. After doing the normal update it was brought to firefox nightly 55 and was still OK then it did another update to version 56 then these crashes started needless to say I submitted this report using a different browser than ff How to do a more powerful reset ?

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Oh ... I am on a fully updated ubuntu 16.04

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in my home dir I just

mv .mozilla .mozilla~ignore


no help still crashes constantly

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here are the error messages when I launch firefox nightly 56 ... get below messages everytime I enter any URL address

export RUST_BACKTRACE=1

./firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 56.0a1


./firefox

thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'SinkInfo contains invalid flags', /checkout/src/libcore/option.rs:794 stack backtrace:

  0: std::sys::imp::backtrace::tracing::imp::unwind_backtrace
  1: std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}
  2: std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook
  3: std::panicking::begin_panic
  4: std::panicking::begin_panic_fmt
  5: core::panicking::panic_fmt
  6: core::option::expect_failed
  7: pulse::context::Context::get_sink_info_by_name::wrapped
  8: <unknown>
  9: <unknown>
 10: pa_pdispatch_run
 11: <unknown>
 12: <unknown>
 13: <unknown>
 14: <unknown>
 15: <unknown>
 16: pa_mainloop_dispatch
 17: pa_mainloop_iterate
 18: pa_mainloop_run
 19: <unknown>
 20: <unknown>
 21: start_thread
 22: clone

Redirecting call to abort() to mozalloc_abort

[Parent 17745] WARNING: pipe error (42): Connection reset by peer: file /home/worker/workspace/build/src/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 [Parent 17745] WARNING: pipe error (53): Connection reset by peer: file /home/worker/workspace/build/src/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 [Parent 17745] WARNING: pipe error (52): Connection reset by peer: file /home/worker/workspace/build/src/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 [Parent 17745] WARNING: pipe error (41): Connection reset by peer: file /home/worker/workspace/build/src/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353

      1. !!! [Parent][MessageChannel] Error: (msgtype=0x280080,name=PBrowser::Msg_Destroy) Channel error: cannot send/recv

thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'SinkInfo contains invalid flags', /checkout/src/libcore/option.rs:794 stack backtrace:

  0: std::sys::imp::backtrace::tracing::imp::unwind_backtrace
  1: std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}
  2: std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook
  3: std::panicking::begin_panic
  4: std::panicking::begin_panic_fmt
  5: core::panicking::panic_fmt
  6: core::option::expect_failed
  7: pulse::context::Context::get_sink_info_by_name::wrapped
  8: <unknown>
  9: <unknown>
 10: pa_pdispatch_run
 11: <unknown>
 12: <unknown>
 13: <unknown>
 14: <unknown>
 15: <unknown>
 16: pa_mainloop_dispatch
 17: pa_mainloop_iterate
 18: pa_mainloop_run
 19: <unknown>
 20: <unknown>
 21: start_thread
 22: clone

Redirecting call to abort() to mozalloc_abort

[Parent 17745] WARNING: pipe error (73): Connection reset by peer: file /home/worker/workspace/build/src/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 [Parent 17745] WARNING: pipe error (88): Connection reset by peer: file /home/worker/workspace/build/src/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 [Parent 17745] WARNING: pipe error (86): Connection reset by peer: file /home/worker/workspace/build/src/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353


NOTE I am on ubuntu 16.04

uname -m && uname -r && cat /etc/*release x86_64 4.4.0-81-generic DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" VERSION_ID="16.04"

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I see this issue is happening to others

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375873

     which refers to coding change 

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b52b0b9cd722

Modified by EventHorizon