208606 - crash when visiting certain URLs. gdb shows SIGSEGV in nsTextFrame::TextStyle::TextStyle(nsIPresContext*, nsIRenderingContext&, nsIStyleContext*) () from /usr/lib/mozilla-1.3/components/libgklayout.so

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180309

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[hchen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313

The browser crashed on http://www.cnet.com/reviews/0-9870989.html?tag=sb

GDB shows:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 25627)]
0x40e622e2 in nsTextFrame::TextStyle::TextStyle(nsIPresContext*,
nsIRenderingContext&, nsIStyleContext*) () from
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.3/components/libgklayout.so

The RPM package is mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_gtk2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.cnet.com/reviews/0-9870989.html?tag=sb
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
Not crash

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

does it happen with latest 1.4 build ?

Comment 2

[Alexander Kruppa]

No crash with 1.4rc1 [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4)
Gecko/20030529] under SuSE 8.2

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You don't use a xft build (i see no comment that you use one) ?

Please re-run fc-cache .

Comment 4

[hchen]

Attachment: Stack trace from gdb

Comment 5

[hchen]

I tried mozilla 1.4 RC1.  The "linux x86 tar.gz format" package from mozilla.org
(http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4rc1/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.4rc1.tar.gz)
does not crash, but it uses an ugly font in displaying web pages.  However, the
RPM package from rpmfind.net
(ftp://rpmfind.speakeasy.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mozilla-1.4-1.i386.rpm)
still crashes, and it uses nice fonts in displaying web pages.  The stack trace
attachment that I submitted earlier is from this mozilla package.

BTW, I am running Redhat 9, kernel 2.4.20, gtk2-2.2.1-4, gtk2-devel-2.2.1-4,
usermode-gtk-1.67-2, gtk+-devel-1.2.10-25, gtk-engines-0.11-16, gtk+-1.2.10-25.
I tried to rerun fs-cache but it didn't help.

Comment 6

[hchen]

Both mozilla 1.3 Linux Xft build and Gtk2 build RPMs from mozilla.org crash.

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Blizzard

Can you please re-run fc-cache ?

Comment 8

[hchen]

> Can you please re-run fc-cache ?

I did, but it didn't help -- mozilla still crashes.

Comment 9

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Works here.  Perhaps there are some .fon files in the path?  Or some non-world
readable files?

Comment 10

[hchen]

Problem solved.  I deleted the .fon files and reran fc-cache, and mozilla
doesn't crash any more.  Thanks!

BTW, wouldn't it be nice if mozilla can express its displeasure with .fon files
in some way other than crashing?

Comment 11

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180309 ***