352901 - Visitng URL crashes firefox (100% repeatable right now)

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Epperly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-5)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-5)

I am ssh'ed to my Debian laptop where I am running firefox. The laptop is running firefox, and the X11 display is run by a desktop box.  Executing the following from the terminal, crashes firefox.
firefox http://benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/x360_page_1.htm
>X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
  Major opcode of failed request:  149 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (X_ShmAttach)
  Serial number of failed request:  51
  Current serial number in output stream:  52
 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh -X laptop
2. firefox http://benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/x360_page_1.htm
3.

Actual Results:  
Screen starts to render, and then it crashes. The following error appears in the launching terminal:
X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
  Major opcode of failed request:  149 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (X_ShmAttach)
  Serial number of failed request:  51
  Current serial number in output stream:  52
 


Expected Results:  
Page displays for me to read. No crash.

galeon and epiphany also crash on the same page.

Comment 1

[Harry Bullen]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060813 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060919 Minefield/3.0a1

This works fine for me using the above versions of Firefox.  Dose this only happen when you launch Firefox from the terminal trough ssh, or dose it also happen when you are are at your laptop and either use the terminal or regular browsing to go to this web page?  Also I noticed that this website has windows media player plulin on it.  I do not have the plugin installed in any of the above configurations, so that may be the issue.  Also, as you are getting an access denied error try running the same command as root to see if it is a permissions problem.

Comment 2

[Tom Epperly]

I've upgraded to this version
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1)

I tried logging into the laptop's display (i.e., no ssh tunneling). I can visit the site without firefox cashing. The version above still crashes when I run firefox via ssh tunneling X11.

Comment 3

[Harry Bullen]

Okay first I have a couple of questions I looks like the site you are visiting requires a media player plug in.  Do you have that installed for Firefox.  If so which one and dose Firefox crash when you visit other sites that also require that plugin.  How about galeon and epiphany do they work fine when they aren't tunneled and can they play the video?  Finally could you try either the release candidate or a nightly build to see if these are affected as well?

Comment 4

[Tom Epperly]

I realize you asked a multipart question. I will answer as many parts as I have time to.  Here is part one: the plugins I have installed according to about:plugins

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 7.0 r68

    File name: libvlcplugin.so
    VLC multimedia plugin
    version 0.8.6 Janus 

    File name: nsdejavu.so
    This is the DjvuLibre-3.5.17 version of the DjVu plugin.
    More information can be found at LizardTech, Inc. and DjVuZone.

    File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
    Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_03

Comment 5

[Tom Epperly]

Epiphany 2.14.3 plays the video when I am logged in directly to the laptop console (i.e., no X11 via ssh tunneling).

Comment 6

[Tom Epperly]

Likewise, galeon 2.0.2 plays the video when I run it on the laptop console.

Comment 7

[Tom Epperly]

I am not sure where to find a site that requires the VLC plugin.

Comment 8

[Tom Epperly]

I tried visiting the site when the following version of firefox (aka Minefield)

Minefield 3.0a1

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060609 Minefield/3.0a1

It didn't crash when run over the ssh tunnel; however, Minefield didn't have the VLC plugin installed. I double checked that VLC wasn't active by checking about:plugins.

Next, I installed the VLC plugin by making a link in the appropriate plugins directory.

epperly@driftcreek[/tmp/firefoxnightly/install]>./firefox & [3] 26536
epperly@driftcreek[/tmp/firefoxnightly/install]>The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 83 error_code 172 request_code 142 minor_code 19)
  (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 guess this puts the blame pretty squarely on the VLC plugin.  Will you report this to them?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

can you reproduce using FF 3.5 beta?
  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 10

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCO. Reporter, please reopen this bug if you can see this issue with Firefox 3.5 or later in Firefox Safe Mode (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode) or a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles)