Firefox not starting after crash, GLib-CRITICAL error
This happened to me more than once. Firefox crashes and then it will not start again. When started from the terminal I get the following error message (even when just checking the version or running in safe mode):
~$ firefox -v
(process:13206): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed Mozilla Firefox 37.0.1
The problem is fixed when I log out and log in from my account. Maybe there is another option to reset firefox without logging out?
I already searched for the problem and there are some bug reports:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671 (marked as resolved, apparently because they are about different bugs with the same error message)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1075079 (no useful information here)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117 (this is just about the warning but not about the crash?)
PS: I also get this warning when firefox starts normally. So probably the warning is unrelated to the crash?
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If you have submitted crash reports then please post the IDs of one or more recent crash reports that have a "bp-" prefix:
- bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
You can find the Report ID of recent crash reports on the "Help > Troubleshooting Information" page (about:support).
- Click the "All Crash Reports" button on this page to open the about:crashes page and see all crash reports.
If necessary then you can open about: pages via the location/address bar.
See:
The crash reporter does not even start, it seems to crash before that.
Do you see any crash reports in the Crash Reports folder?
- ~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports
You can check if you can start Firefox in Safe Mode by adding the -safe-mode switch to the Firefox command line in a terminal window.
Are you using the Firefox version from the Mozilla server or a special version from the Ubuntu repositories?
Try the version from the official Mozilla server if you currently use a version from the repositories of your Linux distribution.
You can find the full version of the current current Firefox release (37.0.1) in all languages and all operating systems here:
The Ubuntu version of Firefox does not have the crash reporter I think since it is third-party.
I see some older crash reports in that folder but none from the day of the crash.
Safe mode also did not work.
I am indeed using the Ubuntu firefox version, maybe I will try the official version. However it is hard to tell if that would help, since the crash happens less than once a week.
The Ubuntu version has a crash reporter, for example here is an unrelated older crash which I reported: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/8eb33429-473e-465d-925f-cbf832150416