232807 - Opening Wikipedia leads to X crash

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When I open Wikipedia, both Mozilla 1.6 and Firebird 0.7 (binary builds from
mozilla.org) crash my X server. The Mozilla 1.4 that comes with Slackware Linux
9.1 does not.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla
2. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org
3. Wait for the page to open and X to crash

Actual Results:  
The X server crashed.

Expected Results:  
It shouldn't have led to an X crash.

Comment 1

[Sven Krohlas]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040129
well, the pages takes quite a long time to render and the browser hangs a bit,
but for me neither X nor Mozilla crash.

Reporter, could you please try a current build of Mozilla or Firebird?
-> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-trunk/
-> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest/
-> http://mozilla.org/releases/ (for 1.6)

(but... be careful with nightly builds;)

Comment 2

[PeteVine]

Try something newer - works for me with: 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040130 Firebird/0.8.0+

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reporter, are you using a gtk1 or gtk2 build?  (See what about:buildconfig says.)  

Comment 4

[Helge Hielscher]

WFM / mozilla-1.6-5mdk

Comment 5

[Alex Hirzel]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

I use Wikipedia all the time on my 1.6 final install.  I'm using 20040125 right
now, but Wikipedia is down so I can't test using it.  Never had a problem though.

Comment 6

[Sven Krohlas]

Well, as no one seems to be able to reproduce this (I also asked on BugDay today)
I mark this WFM.
Cry out loud if your opinion is different.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

I switched to Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207
Firefox/0.8 and it still leads to an X crash. Tried a new profile too, same
thing. And Mozilla 1.6 also crashes. I'm using the gtk1 build from mozilla.org.

Comment 8

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try again using Mozilla 1.7rc2 (as it includes Talkback) ? If still
crashing, can you post Talkback Incident ID for this crash by running
"mozilla/components/talkback/talkback" ?

Comment 9

[Marc Mongenet]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
OS : Debian stable with additional TrueType fonts
No crash for me, but HUGE memory use and I have 1 GB RAM:
- Right now, top command reports SIZE of 44200 for Mozilla and 163M for XFree86.
- Open in new tab http://en.wikipedia.org/ : 88260 for Mozilla and 203M for XFree86.
- Load http://fr.wikipedia.org/ in tab : 128M for Mozilla and 240M for XFree86.
- Load http://hi.wikipedia.org/ in tab : 280M for Mozilla and 392M for XFRee86.

The english Wikipedia is displayed with a sans-serif font. The french Wikipedia
is displayed with my default Georgia TrueType fonts. No idea for the hindi one.
I have configured pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false); pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);

Comment 10

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Not sure who the right owner is for true type code, but it sure isn't me.

Comment 11

[Marc Mongenet]

In fact it is (in my case) probably not related to TrueType, only to fonts. I
have exactly the same problem without the custom TrueType config.
I installed Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040714 and
I played with the "Debug -> Flush Memory" menu. Here is what I observe:

Mozilla SIZE 63564; XFree86 SIZE 200M
Open new tab, display http://en.wikipedia.org/ , back to this tab
Mozilla SIZE 102M; XFree86 SIZE 244M
Debug -> Flush Memory
Mozilla SIZE 63836; XFree86 SIZE 204M
Display tab with Wikipedia, back here
Mozilla SIZE 63964; XFree86 SIZE 204M
Display tab with Wikipedia, scroll down and when I have to display the
"Wikipedia in other languages" (down the page), there is a 100% CPU use for 2
seconds by XFree86 and:
Mozilla SIZE 102M; XFree86 SIZE 244M

Comment 12

[Kenan]

A lot of Talkback-IDs but all Win32 or Mac:
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=1&searchby=url&match=contains&searchfor=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org&vendor=All&product=All&platform=All&buildid=&sdate=&stime=&edate=&etime=

Comment 13

[Adam Hauner]

No response from reporter for several months, marking WFM.
Reporter: Please reopen this bug, if you could reproduce with recent build and
could provide Talkback incident ID.