625147 - Clicking tab groups button sometimes crashes the X server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

Description

[Luke McCarthy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b8

Clicking tab groups button sometimes crashes the X server, but sometimes it works just fine. I haven't seen a pattern as to when it is more likely to crash, but it happens at least 1 in 10 times it is clicked.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create tabs and tab groups
2. Click the tab group button
3. Repeat until it crashes
Actual Results:  
Crashes X server.

Expected Results:  
Doesn't crash X server.

My graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 4850. I am using Catalyst 10.10 drivers and Xorg 1.9.2 on Arch Linux 64-bit.

Comment 1

[Brandon Cheng]

This probably has something to do with the close group animation, right?

Comment 2

[Luke McCarthy]

Yeah it'll be a problem in the driver or the X server, but Firefox 4 is the only program that I use that triggers it. It happens immediately after releasing the mouse button, so just as the animation starts.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Can you please test with a latest nightly build you can find under the following location? I assume that this is already fixed.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

If it's related to WebGL I would assume it is fixed by bug 624390.

Comment 5

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

I'm using panorama intensively on Linux and this has never happend to me. I'm using Ubuntu with an Nvidia graphic card.

Comment 6

[Ian Gilman [:iangilman]]

Sounds like it's fixed? If not, please re-open.

Comment 7

[Luke McCarthy]

I just installed beta 9 and the bug is still there.

Comment 8

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I just installed beta 9 and the bug is still there.

Could you please try a nightly build?

Comment 9

[Luke McCarthy]

I tried the nightly build and it didn't seem to crash.

Comment 10

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I tried the nightly build and it didn't seem to crash.

If you do run into this failure again on a nightly or beta 10, do let us know.