390303 - gecko crash: badmatch serial 120 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 304370

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[u123541]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

crash every time I visit www.sugarcrm.com -- noticed while running firefox 2.0.0.4 and problem remains after upgrading to 2.0.0.6

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start browser
2. goto http://www.sugarcrm.com
3. 
Actual Results:  
crash with:

The program 'gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 120 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
  (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.)



Unable to use restore sessions because crash happens every time.  Is there a guide to editing sessionrestore.js to remove a bad site?

Problem occurs on various user accounts with varying addons from very few to many.

Comment 1

[u123541]

Looks like I won't be able to pay my cell phone bill -- http://www.alltel.com produces the same crash.  To be sure it wasn't due to my system being in sleep mode while I was on vacation, rebooted it -- no change.  Running on up-to-date Mandriva Linux 2007.1 

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

This is probably a dupe of bug 304370. I'd be nice to have the following information, though:

1) Which version of Flash are you using (shown in about:plugins).
2) Are you using 16-bit visuals and the Xorg composite extension?
3) Does this happen if you run `export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1' in a terminal before starting Firefox?

Comment 3

[u123541]

re 1) While waiting, I've been trying other things...  since I only noticed this problem after installing Mandriva 2007.1, I rebooted into 2007.0...  this is significant since after many variations over the years, I've settled on a pair of partitions (/ (incl /usr) & /var) and keeping all others shared, like this:

hda5 = /        (2007.0)
hda6 = /var     (2007.0)
hda7 = swap
hda8 = /        (2007.1)
hda9 = /var     (2007.1)
hda10= /home
hda11= /usr/local   (where firefox resides)

So... only / & /var were changed out when I rebooted with 2007.0...  this means that everything in my /home and /usr/local are identical; firefox 2.0.0.6 works fine under the older OS... so this would point to something in the X server, no?

re 2) where do I check?

re 3) Let me know if I should still try this given the above info...  in the meanwhile, I'll stay on 2007.0

Comment 4

[u123541]

Shockwave Flash 7.0 r68

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

Hrm, seems likely. 

You might want to try upgrading your version of Flash. This problem may be fixed in Flash 9, but I'm not sure. http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/01/flash_player_9_for_linux_x86.html

2) You could probably just attach your Xorg configuration file, which should be in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

3) Yeah, you can probably wait. I'll be able to tell from your xorg.conf whether you're using composite and/or 16-bit visuals.

Comment 6

[u123541]

Attachment: This is the 2007.1 Xorg file

/alt/etc/X11/xorg.conf is from 2007.1 partition

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

Yep, looking at your xorg.conf, you're using the composite extension and 16-bit depth. I'm going to dupe this. According to this blog post, the issue has been fixed in Flash 9: http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/10/flashxcomposite-crasher-in-x11.html.

Comment 8

[u123541]

2007.0 had:
>     # DefaultColorDepth 16
>     DefaultColorDepth 24

Anyway, with Flash 9, all is well again... THANKS!!!