Re: Gecko crashing? (further info)

Marc Shapiro wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Marty wrote:

http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links
are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was
working until recently.

From .xsession-errors:

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
(Details: serial 7812 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Console message from ssh session to another system:

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
(Details: serial 35777 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


I don't know if this is related, since I am not getting errors in .xsession-errors, but just today, I was trying to submit a job application online and firefox crashed on me just as the page loaded. I tried this several times with the same results. If I run firefox from the command line it crashes with a segfault. This would be with firefox 1.0.4-2sarge5. The same thing happens with mozilla suite 1.7.8-1sarge3. Seamonkey 1.0, which was installed from the mozilla site, however, does NOT seem to have this problem.

Rodney D. Myers wrote:

Each of these firefox installs are from the mozilla web page, and not
from the debian repositories.

I just installed the latest firefox and thunderbird from the mozilla website. The new firefox DOES NOT crash, while the old one (Debian pkg) does :-(


I spoke too soon, causing me, once again, to respond to my own post.

I tried to load the page, again, in firefox from the mozilla site. It did not crash, but it did say that it needed the java plugin. After I added a link to libjavaplugin_oji.so to its plugin directory it also crashes.

Seamonkey did NOT say that it required the java plugin, but there were no entries other than libnullplugin in its plugin directory. Once I added the links there, it also started crashing.

I recently changed to Java 5, so I decided to see if going back to 1.4 would solve the problem. It does not.

I shall return to java 5 and the Debian packaged firefox since they seem to be no worse than any other.

BTW: Opera, which came packaged with java, does NOT crash.

Marc


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