225489 - crash when displaying specific site [@ XftDrawGlyphFontSpec ][@ nsFontMetricsXft::DrawString ]

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213734

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Carsten Otto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031011
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031011

Hello!
Whenever you visit http://www.tutorials.de/tutorials20961.html (and scroll down,
until "Code: " is displayed in the 3. posting (from Socke)) Mozilla crashes. The
line contains weird characters. I tried that crash several times and other
Linux-Users have the same problem (some with firebird, some with mozilla, ...).
A sidenote: Mozilla does not crash, when the "view source" window is open - strange?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit http://www.tutorials.de/tutorials20961.html
2. scroll down
3. enjoy the show

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
display the page / not crash

http://home.c-otto.de/crash.html is the source, if the original gets deleted
Viewing that page (so without CSS and Images from the original page) does not
cause a crash

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

do you have Microsoft .fon fonts in your fonts directories ? Does deleting (or
archiving) them prevent from crashing ? Could be bug 180309.
My feeling is that page crashes only when scrolling because
of the HTML displaying fonts with "MS Sans Serif".
I'm thinking of sseriff.fon or sserife.fon.

Comment 2

[Carsten Otto]

I don't have this font. The online files with *serif* are these:

/usr/share/xine/libxine1/fonts/serif-16.xinefont.gz
/usr/share/xine/libxine1/fonts/serif-20.xinefont.gz
/usr/share/xine/libxine1/fonts/serif-24.xinefont.gz
/usr/share/xine/libxine1/fonts/serif-32.xinefont.gz

And I doubt it is a font-error, because several others with different
mozilla-versions experienced the same crash.

Comment 3

[Carsten Otto]

"only files", not online

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

do you crash using latest pre-1.6 build or the Firebird XFT build ?
This is probably fixed via bug 213734.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.6/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-0.8/

Comment 5

[Carsten Otto]

This (see below) is my version at the moment and the bug still exists. Since I
am using Gentoo and the bug is independent from my PC I will not install any
other version.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031119

Comment 6

[Olivier Cahagne]

Can you get a stack and attach it via "create a new attachment" ?
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/debugging-faq.html

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" here)

Comment 7

[Carsten Otto]

Attachment: output of gdb's "bt"

ddd -> open file "mozilla-bin" -> run -> crash -> bt

Comment 8

[Olivier Cahagne]

thanks for the stack, that helps as it's the same as in bug 213734.
Upgrade to 1.6 when it's out for Gentoo and reopen if still crashing.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213734 ***