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FS#1451 - Firefox Crash under xorg 6.8.0 & gnome/kde

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 03:01 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 16 September 2004, 19:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

For certain users on my system, when under gnome or kde, firefox starts, displays a window, then quickly exits. With some further examination, it does spit out an error message, but it is so generic that it isn't worth posting, though it does indicate that firefox doesn't think the crash was its own fault..instead that it was X's fault. Firefox used to work fine under xorg 6.7, for all users, in all wm's.

Eh, I'm having too many problems with xorg 6.8, I'm going back to 6.7 for the time being.
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Closed by  Dale Blount (dale)
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 01:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Thursday, 16 September 2004, 20:19 GMT
Can you post the "generic" message? I cannot reproduce this.
Comment by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Thursday, 16 September 2004, 22:59 GMT
I do believe I misread the message a bit. It does contain an error code, and it's actually X complaining about firefox, not the other way around. Well here it is:

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 85 error_code 8 request_code 144 minor_code 3)
(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.)

This is the message that appeared using the latest xorg (6.8.0-3).
Comment by Andres Morales (vandre) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 16:20 GMT
I had the same problem. it isn't gnome nor Kde specific, the problem arises when you enable the composite extension in your xorg.conf file and try to enter a flash site.( i.e. nvidia.com) with mozilla/firefox.

My bet is that those users in your system whose browser crashes have set up they start homepage to a flash-site
Comment by Andres Morales (vandre) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 16:26 GMT
check this post

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-September/msg00178.html
Comment by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Friday, 17 September 2004, 23:03 GMT
Indeed this is the case, thanks. Though I might add that in xfwm, firefox did not crash, instead it simply did not display the flash content, while in gnome and kde, it crashed.
Comment by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Sunday, 19 September 2004, 19:11 GMT
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Setting that environment variable before executing firefox fixes it. Everything works normally, including flash content.

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