208253 - Browser is occassionally unstable and crashes X.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[andru]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030527 Debian/1.3.1-2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030527 Debian/1.3.1-2

I have often had complete lock ups on my computer system resulting from browsing
to a page, opening a new mozilla window, or scrolling down a page. It normally
happens when you action something in a browser. I get this once or twice a day,
for several months now. The results require me to do a reboot. What happens is
that the cursor is still working, but nothing can be clicked on or moved. You
can not return to console by going Ctrl+Alt+F1 or kill X with
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.  You can ssh into the box, but you can not start up X again.
 The crashes only ever occur while using mozilla (under different user accounts,
i've tried resetting configuration, reinstall but to no avail), I have never
experenced such a nasty crash from using other applications.  I dont know if it
is caused by drawing widgets or by rendering the page.  I havn't had a crash
under gallon but i dont use that as much.  I have a nvidia card and use there
driver, and suspected that could contribute to the problem, if its a bug in the
hardware and mozilla is the only application to cause it or something.  



Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
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I have anti-aliasing enabled.  HEre is some of my X config.

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "xtrap"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "NVidia"
        BoardName   "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Comment 1

[andru]

Appears to be resolved in 1.4

Comment 2

[simon annear]

Hi Andru

Is this still a problem for you - I note that you say it appears to be resolved
in 1.4.  If so - can you please close this bug

Thanks

Comment 3

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