434158 - firefox crashes X11-Server when accessing URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 427601

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[woschwot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5

When trying to access URL the X11-Server crashes. Sometimes Ubuntu Linux reboots automatically. URL can be displayed with Galeon on same OS.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox
2. Enter URL and press Enter

Actual Results:  
X11-Server crashes

Expected Results:  
Display URL

Ubuntu 8.04, i386
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 (3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3)
X.org V1.4.0.90

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0

Cannot reproduce.  May be dependent on distro or something else, or may already be fixed.

Please test in 3.0rc1.

Comment 2

[Sylvain Pasche]

What Xorg driver are you using? I've seen reports of Xorg crash when using nvidia drivers. See bug 427601 or bug 428066.

There may be useful information in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file (or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old to see the previous version if Xorg was restarted).

Comment 3

[woschwot]

I have installed the current nvidia driver based on Ubuntu 8.04:
nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.12-16

The file /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old contains a backtrace (It's always the same):

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c780e]
1: [0xb7f7e420]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

The system in general responds with a restart of the X-Server.
When switching of the nvidia-driver and use the open-source driver instead
the error is not reproducable.

Comment 4

[timeless]

is it so hard to read referenced bugs?

bug 427601 comment 11:
> manually installing nvidia drivers 173.08 beta on Ubuntu 8.04 solved the issue

Comment 5

[woschwot]

Successfully tested with nvidia drivers 173.08 beta.
Thanks for your support.