307614 - X protocol errors when running through lbxproxy kills browser

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel N.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux sparc64; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050907 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux sparc64; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050907 Firefox/1.0.6

At times, when opening multiple tabs, clicking on a link in the various tabs,
and resizing fonts via control-alt-<keypad-+>, the browser will die with what
looks like a gdk error, but not sure:

inevitable/defeat:inevitable: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length erro'.
  (Details: serial 131628 error_code 16 request_code 72 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I tried running it via firefox -g --sync, but gdb puked and said it hit an
internal error, so can't get a reliable backtrace.

Debian/stable for both host and client, host is sun4u, client is i686, built
from 1.0.6 tarball via the following ~/.mozconfig:

MOZ_PHOENIX=1
export MOZ_PHOENIX
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2
ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
ac_add_options --enable-view-source
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --disable-oji
#ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --disable-strip
ac_add_options --disable-shared
ac_add_options --enable-static


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh into a remote host.
2. lbxproxy &
3. DISPLAY=:63 export DISPLAY
4. firefox &
5. Go to slashdot and control-clicking links to open lots of tabs.
6. Start going to the various tabs and clicking a link on them.
7. Go to one of the tabs and resize the font via control-alt-keypad+/-.

Actual Results:  
Err message pasted above.

Expected Results:  
Works :)

Comment 1

[lexual]

Can the reporter please confirm if this still an issue with a recent Firefox version?

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 3

[Daniel N.]

Since the upstream X ripped LBX out of the X distribution and marked it deprecated, I haven't tested with LBX since.  I'll mark it resolved/wontfix, since LBX is not supported anymore.