Bugzilla – Bug 613408
Firefox crashes at startup tries to allocate an enormous amount of memory space
Last modified: 2010-06-11 13:07:58 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 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
This should be fixed already. What's the output of "rpm -q gtk2 --changelog | head -5" in your machine?
Just found the original bug. It's already fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608087 ***