X session crash on MSNBC news pages

can you please start firefox from a console like:

export G_SLICE=always-malloc
firefox 2>&1 | tee /tmp/firefoxgnash-crash.log

and see if the problem goes away?

if it doesn't disappear please attach the log ... otherwise please confirm that this fixes the problem for you.

Thanks for your contribution,

 - Alexander

I can reproduce this one. This happens also on Youtube frontpage. I have ATI Radeon Express 200M with open source drivers (dri disabled). Output of Alexander's commands is attached. It didn't make Xserver crash go away.

I can reproduce this bug, too, on a 64-bit gutsy (amd64, smp) on various websites, even withG_SLICE=always-malloc. Attached is a log of the www.youtube.com frontpage. I am using the vesa driver.

http://homestarrunner.com also triggers and X session crash. I've experienced this with nvidia card using open source drivers on x86.

if you still see this issue, do you get any crash file out of it in /var/crash? If you, could you please attach it?

Yes, I still get the crash. Uninstalling flashplayer-non-free and installing
gnash and the mozilla-plugin makes Firefox crash (including crashing Xorg)
when I try to open a video on the MSNBC page, or even before that, on the
MSN.COM page - possibly because of a Flash ad.

No, there is is no crash report in /var/crash.

There was a crash report about the notification-daemon crash due to a SIGSEV
problem. I deleted that and tried the gnash-crash again; again there is no
new crash report.

I left gnash installed and removed the mozilla-plugin, then checked the
behavior:- no crash, but of course no video. I reinstalled
flashplayer-nonfree and got the video back, so the crash does not happen
unless the gnash mozilla-plugin is installed.

Hope that helps....

Stephen Cradock

Stephen Cradock

>From: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
>Reply-To: Bug 120859 <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Subject: [Bug 120859] Re: X session crash on MSNBC news pages
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:52:53 -0000
>
>if you still see this issue, do you get any crash file out of it in
>/var/crash? If you, could you please attach it?
>
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>X session crash on MSNBC news pages
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120859
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I can no longer reproduce this in Hardy Alpha 5 and gnash-0.8.1-0ubuntu3.