Debian Bug report logs - #1099788
epiphany-browser don't start - Segmentation fault

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Package: epiphany-browser; Maintainer for epiphany-browser is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for epiphany-browser is src:epiphany-browser (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 07:33:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Found in version epiphany-browser/48~rc-2

Fixed in version epiphany-browser/48.0-1

Done: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2595

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, praveen@debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#1099788; Package epiphany-browser. (Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:33:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to praveen@debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:33:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: epiphany-browser don't start - Segmentation fault
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:00:03 +0530
Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 48~rc-2
Severity: grave
Justification: it cannot be used at all now
X-Debbugs-Cc: praveen@debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

On an a recently update debian sid amd64 laptop, epiphany no longer starts.

$ epiphany-browser
Segmentation fault

$ epiphany-browser -p
Segmentation fault

It was working till yesterday before I did a dist-upgrade (after 2-3 weeks may
be).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bu  1.16.2-1
    s]
ii  epiphany-browser-data                       48~rc-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   48~beta-1
ii  iso-codes                                   4.17.0-1
ii  libadwaita-1-0                              1.7~rc-1
ii  libarchive13t64                             3.7.4-1.1
ii  libc6                                       2.41-3
ii  libcairo2                                   1.18.2-2
ii  libgck-2-2                                  4.3.91-1
ii  libgcr-4-4                                  4.3.91-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                         2.42.12+dfsg-2
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                             2.83.5-1
ii  libgmp10                                    2:6.3.0+dfsg-3
ii  libgranite-7-7                              7.6.0-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                           1.25.90-2
ii  libgtk-4-1                                  4.17.5+ds-3
ii  libhogweed6t64                              3.10.1-1
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1                  2.46.6-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                          1.10.6+ds-1
ii  libnettle8t64                               3.10.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                              1.56.1-1
ii  libportal-gtk4-1                            0.9.1-1
ii  libportal1                                  0.9.1-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                               0.21.6-3
ii  libsoup-3.0-0                               3.6.4-2
ii  libsqlite3-0                                3.46.1-1
ii  libwebkitgtk-6.0-4                          2.46.6-1
ii  libxml2                                     2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-0.2+b2

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  ca-certificates           20241223
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad  1.24.12-3+b1
ii  yelp                      42.2-2

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#1099788; Package epiphany-browser. (Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:39:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Yannick Le Pennec <yannick.lepennec@live.fr>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:39:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 1099788@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yannick Le Pennec <yannick.lepennec@live.fr>
To: 1099788@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: epiphany-browser don't start - Segmentation fault
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:37:06 +0100
Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2595

I am hitting this as well. A backtrace (see below) suggests this is upstream bug
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2595

I have built upstream from source and confirmed that the following commit fixes
it: 

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/commit/2354e182d64daf507686a9ca703f5b7a97f5b823

---

#0  __strcmp_avx2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcmp-avx2.S:283
#1  0x00007f8024cafd37 in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/epiphany-
browser/libephymain.so
#2  0x00007f8024cb0304 in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/epiphany-
browser/libephymain.so
#3  0x00007f80249de6cb in g_type_create_instance () at /lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00007f80249c1b20 in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00007f80249c3b4e in g_object_new_with_properties () at /lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00007f80249c4ab1 in g_object_new () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-
2.0.so.0
#7  0x00007f8024cd7964 in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/epiphany-
browser/libephymain.so
#8  0x00007f80249c1c96 in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9  0x00007f80249c473b in g_object_new_valist () at /lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00007f80249c4a8d in g_object_new () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-
2.0.so.0
#11 0x00007f8024cd5961 in ephy_window_new () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/epiphany-browser/libephymain.so
#12 0x00007f8024cca0f0 in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/epiphany-
browser/libephymain.so
#13 0x00007f80248ae0d4 in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#14 0x00007f80248af584 in g_markup_parse_context_parse () at /lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#15 0x00007f8024ccbb2f in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/epiphany-
browser/libephymain.so
#16 0x00007f8024a8cbce in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
#17 0x00007f8024ac1733 in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
#18 0x00007f8024ac176d in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
#19 0x00007f80248a7f65 in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x00007f80248aa197 in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0x00007f80248aa900 in g_main_context_iteration () at /lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#22 0x00007f8024af19a5 in g_application_run () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-
2.0.so.0
#23 0x000055db1460ab84 in ??? ()
#24 0x00007f8023a33ca8 in __libc_start_call_main
(main=main@entry=0x55db1460a570, argc=argc@entry=1,
argv=argv@entry=0x7ffec3cbdb38) at ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
#25 0x00007f8023a33d65 in __libc_start_main_impl
    (main=0x55db1460a570, argc=1, argv=0x7ffec3cbdb38, init=<optimized out>,
fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffec3cbdb28) at
../csu/libc-start.c:360
#26 0x000055db1460af41 in ??? ()



Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2595'. Request was from Yannick Le Pennec <yannick.lepennec@live.fr> to 1099788-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:39:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>:
You have taken responsibility. (Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:51:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #17 received at 1099788-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: 1099788-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#1099788: fixed in epiphany-browser 48.0-1
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:49:34 +0000
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Source: epiphany-browser
Source-Version: 48.0-1
Done: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
epiphany-browser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1099788@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> (supplier of updated epiphany-browser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:45:35 -0400
Source: epiphany-browser
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 48.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>
Closes: 1099788
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 epiphany-browser (48.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
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