Bug 613408

Summary: Firefox crashes at startup tries to allocate an enormous amount of memory space
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Joop Boonen <joop.boonen>
Component: FirefoxAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: lchiquitto
Version: Milestone 7   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Description Joop Boonen 2010-06-10 22:13:39 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.4; Linux) KHTML/4.4.3 (like Gecko) SUSE

When starting firefox it crashes with the following message, tries to allocate an enormous amount of memory:

<quote>
jboonen@phenom-810:~> firefox 
*** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).

GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:137: failed to allocate 186395854027533 bytes
aborting...
jboonen@phenom-810:~>
</quote>

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Leonardo Chiquitto 2010-06-11 13:05:29 UTC 
This should be fixed already. What's the output of "rpm -q gtk2 --changelog | head -5" in your machine?
Comment 2 Leonardo Chiquitto 2010-06-11 13:07:58 UTC 
Just found the original bug. It's already fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608087 ***