Minefield Nightly build crashes

bobtran said:

The nightly x64 "firefox-4.0b7pre" for 10-2-2010 appears to be unstable. After allowing the upgrade it now crashes with the following error:
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Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version: 2.0.0.3927, time stamp: 0x4ca6ffe2
Faulting module name: mozjs.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4ca6f48b
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001ab60e
Faulting process id: 0x1068
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb6276befdf340
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\mozjs.dll
Report Id: 0283e610-ce6a-11df-80fe-00044b040674
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This seems to me to be a lesson in "don't upgrade" go and download each nightly build so as to be able to revert.

To revert: Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly
Find the x64 build in the "2010-MM-DD-mozilla-central" Directory

I couldn't find x64 build there but 32 bit ?

dg

bobtran said:

The nightly x64 "firefox-4.0b7pre" for 10-2-2010 appears to be unstable. After allowing the upgrade it now crashes with the following error:
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Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version: 2.0.0.3927, time stamp: 0x4ca6ffe2
Faulting module name: mozjs.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4ca6f48b
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001ab60e
Faulting process id: 0x1068
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb6276befdf340
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\mozjs.dll
Report Id: 0283e610-ce6a-11df-80fe-00044b040674
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This seems to me to be a lesson in "don't upgrade" go and download each nightly build so as to be able to revert.

To revert: Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly
Find the x64 build in the "2010-MM-DD-mozilla-central" Directory

I was having the same problem, this is what worked for me.

go into about:config (start minefield in safe mode if necc.)

change these lines to false

javascript.options.methodjit.content
javascript.options.methodjit.chrome

Restart minefield in normal mode and all should be ok

Blongs said:

bobtran said:

The nightly x64 "firefox-4.0b7pre" for 10-2-2010 appears to be unstable. After allowing the upgrade it now crashes with the following error:
--------------------------------
Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version: 2.0.0.3927, time stamp: 0x4ca6ffe2
Faulting module name: mozjs.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4ca6f48b
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001ab60e
Faulting process id: 0x1068
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb6276befdf340
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\mozjs.dll
Report Id: 0283e610-ce6a-11df-80fe-00044b040674
----------------------------------
This seems to me to be a lesson in "don't upgrade" go and download each nightly build so as to be able to revert.

To revert: Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly
Find the x64 build in the "2010-MM-DD-mozilla-central" Directory

I was having the same problem, this is what worked for me.

go into about:config (start minefield in safe mode if necc.)

change these lines to false

javascript.options.methodjit.content
javascript.options.methodjit.chrome

Restart minefield in normal mode and all should be ok

Same happen to me... tried to roll back and crashed all browsers... even IE was done... Sure glad i had a full system backup... GL :)

Blongs said:

I was having the same problem, this is what worked for me.

go into about:config (start minefield in safe mode if necc.)

change these lines to false

javascript.options.methodjit.content
javascript.options.methodjit.chrome

Restart minefield in normal mode and all should be ok

I'm going to give that a try forthwith - I'll report back momentarily (I'll be using the 10-03 build).

bobtran said:

In the "2010-10-01-02-mozilla-central" directory (3rd one down inside directory):

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2010-10-01-02-mozilla-central

Bobtran, thanks, that's the same one I've been reverting to. I just do a re-install over the top of the build that crashes and I'm back and running. I'm going to give Blongs' method a shot with the new build.


EDIT: Blongs' method works. I changed the settings in about:config before installing the build update therefore negating the necessity of the interim safe mode start-up of Firefox.

I don't know what impacts the settings might have on the performance of Firefox but I'm heading over to Bugzilla and MozillaZine to see what I can find out.

Blongs said:

bobtran said:

The nightly x64 "firefox-4.0b7pre" for 10-2-2010 appears to be unstable. After allowing the upgrade it now crashes with the following error:
--------------------------------
Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version: 2.0.0.3927, time stamp: 0x4ca6ffe2
Faulting module name: mozjs.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4ca6f48b
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000001ab60e
Faulting process id: 0x1068
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb6276befdf340
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Minefield\mozjs.dll
Report Id: 0283e610-ce6a-11df-80fe-00044b040674
----------------------------------
This seems to me to be a lesson in "don't upgrade" go and download each nightly build so as to be able to revert.

To revert: Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly
Find the x64 build in the "2010-MM-DD-mozilla-central" Directory

I was having the same problem, this is what worked for me.

go into about:config (start minefield in safe mode if necc.)

change these lines to false

javascript.options.methodjit.content
javascript.options.methodjit.chrome

Restart minefield in normal mode and all should be ok

I tried the oct03 build and only had to change the one line and this is from a clean install
javascript.options.methodjit.content to false...

Thanks Blongs