230215 - Mozilla crashes when I visit this web page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Croome]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031202

I'm using the DAG Mozilla 1.5 RPMS on a Fedora 1 box (with all the latest updates):

$ rpm -qi mozilla
Name        : mozilla                      Relocations: /usr 
Version     : 1.5                               Vendor: Dag Apt Repository,
http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
Release     : 2.rhfc1.dag                   Build Date: Tue 02 Dec 2003 17:07:12 GMT
Install Date: Mon 05 Jan 2004 15:40:30 GMT      Build Host: localhost
Group       : Applications/Internet         Source RPM:
mozilla-1.5-2.rhfc1.dag.src.rpm
Size        : 39175153                         License: MPL/NPL/GPL/LGPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 02 Dec 2003 22:47:35 GMT, Key ID a20e52146b8d79e6
Packager    : Dag Wieers <[e-mail]>
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/
Summary     : A Web browser.
Description :
Mozilla is an open-source Web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance, and portability.



The page that causes the crash is valid XHTML 1.0 served as text/html:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.multikulti.org.uk%2F

It also has valid CSS2:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.multikulti.org.uk%2F

I _don't_ have a problem with Mozilla running in XP in VMWare (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007) and in addition this
web site was developed using Mozilla...



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.multikulti.org.uk/
2. Browser crashes


Actual Results:  
There is no output to the terminal I start Mozilla from when it crashes.

Expected Results:  
Not crashed :-)

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try latest XFT Firebird pre-0.8 build ? Simple tarball that can be in a
dummy directory (I assume your build is XFT otherwise you can use Mozilla
pre-1.6 nightly builds):
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-0.8/
this may be bug 213734.

If still crashing, please attach a stack trace by running 'mozilla -g' and 'bt'
after crashing within GDB.
do you have Microsoft .fon fonts in your fonts directories ? Does deleting (or
archiving) them prevent from crashing ? Could be bug 180309.

Comment 2

[Barteld]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040106

Comment 3

[Manuel Oetiker]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040107

It works for me.

Comment 4

[Chris Croome]

I don't have any .fon fonts -- the following doesn't match anything:

$ locate fon | grep -i fon$

The lastest Firebird doesn't crash: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040106 
Firebird/0.7+

I'll mail the freshrpms list about the linux rpm version that is crashing to see if others are having this 
problem.

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

does your 1.5 build crash on URL mentioned in bug 213734 ?
http://4c.ucc.ie/~cbosch/mozcrash.txt

Comment 6

[Chris Croome]

My DAG 1.5 RPM Mozilla does also crash on http://4c.ucc.ie/~cbosch/mozcrash.txt

Also it has been suggested that upgrading from RedHat 9 to Fedora 1 might cause some fonts to be 
installed that cause crashes:

http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2004-January/007117.html

Comment 7

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you attach a stacktrace from your 1.5 build ?

if you're using the standard mozilla startup script, just do
% mozilla -g -d gdb
(gdb) run
[wait for mozilla to crash]
(gdb) bt
(attach the output from "bt" via "create a new attachment")

This could be related to bug
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111973 too.

Comment 8

[Chris Croome]

Sorry for being stupid but I don't understand how to do that stack trace, I can get this far:

[chris@snowball chris]$ mozilla  -g -d gdb
[23]+  Exit 11                 mozilla

But I don't understand how to run the bt command?

Comment 9

[Chris Croome]

This might be caused by a Chinese TTF -- I have been removing all the fonts installed on my 
system one-by-one and restarting xfs and then trying Mozilla and after removing this one:

# rpm -e ttfonts-zh_CN-2.13-0

Mozilla no longer crashes :-)

Comment 10

[Chris Croome]

I have just reinstalled the font that *appeared* to cause the problem (apt-get install ttfonts-zh_CN) 
but I don't have the crashes any more.

These are all the font RPMS that I have removed:

fonts-hebrew-0.80-1
fonts-ISO8859-2-100dpi-1.0-11
fonts-ISO8859-2-1.0-11
fonts-ja-8.0-9
fonts-KOI8-R-1.0-5
fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi-1.0-5
freebanglafont-0.5-1
taipeifonts-1.2-23
ttfonts-ja-1.2-29
ttfonts-zh_TW-2.11-22
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-42

And these are the ones I have left:

bitmap-fonts-0.3-2
chkfontpath-1.9.10-2
fontconfig-2.2.1-6.1
fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi-1.0-11
fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi-1.0-5
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-9
mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.fr
tetex-fonts-2.0.2-8
ttfonts-ko-1.0.11-29
ttfonts-zh_CN-2.13-0
urw-fonts-2.1-5.1
xawtv-tv-fonts-3.88-6
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-42
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-42

Comment 11

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

out of curiosity: do you use apt-get (.deb Packages) and RPMs (not that this is
generally wrong)?

Comment 12

[Chris Croome]

apt (and yum) are used by _lots_ of people for updating Fedora and Red Hat boxes, in fact yum is 
now the official updater for Fedora, for more info see Freshrpms:

  http://www.freshrpms.net/

I have never tried installing a .deb on a Red Hat or Fedora machine.

(Sorry for getting off-topic!)

Comment 13

[Felix Miata]

WFM Linux gtk1 1.6 on SuSE 8.2 and Mandrake 9.2 xft/gtk2 1.4 release.

Comment 14

[Chris Croome]

Hi

I fixed this buy deleting my ~/.mozilla directory and upgradeing to the latest
DAG RPM:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124

Sorry not to have a more helpful bug report...

Comment 15

[Olivier Cahagne]

marking WFM as per reporter comments.