Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.2-2 Followup-For: Bug #299486 well, i could also crash after mozilla-firefox-gnome-support was removed; i also noted apt-cache crashed during the removal:
$ sudo dpkg --purge mozilla-firefox-gnome-support (Reading database ... 131490 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mozilla-firefox-gnome-support ... Updating mozilla-firefox chrome registry...done. Purging configuration files for mozilla-firefox-gnome-support ... Updating mozilla-firefox chrome registry...done. $ dpkg -l mozilla-firefox-gnome-support Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=============================-=============================-========================================================================== pn mozilla-firefox-gnome-support <none> (no description available) $ ll -rt | tail -n 1 -rw------- 1 piem piem 13283328 2005-04-05 16:38 core $ gdb apt-cache core GNU gdb 6.3-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc-linux"...(no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `apt-cache pkgnames mozilla-firefox-gno'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld.so.1 #0 0x0ffb045c in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3 (gdb) after that, i could crash firefox again by visiting the same page as above (changing the font size seemed to help), giving the following backtrace: ... Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_dns.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_dns.so.2 #0 0x0ef8fbc0 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.3-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Window System printing extension ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 21.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]