790679 - shutdown crash when running in 8-bit mode

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

In bug 790506 karlt diagnosed a shutdown crash and thought it was due to running the display with 8-bit colour depth. Switching to 24-bit colour fixes the the problem.

Comment 1

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Can you provide a stack trace (see https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report)?

Comment 2

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

The stack trace is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790506#c0

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is not 8-bit no longer supported?

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It should be supported if it only causes a crash on shutdown but works in general

Comment 5

[u279076]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #4)
> It should be supported if it only causes a crash on shutdown but works in
> general

Is this still valid? Is it something we still want?

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I think this is still valid because we still use cairo. It's a rare edge case (linux, 8bit graphic mode only) and I doubt that users getting this in the wild.

Comment 7

[u279076]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #6)
> I think this is still valid because we still use cairo. It's a rare edge
> case (linux, 8bit graphic mode only) and I doubt that users getting this in
> the wild.

I'd prefer to close this bug as WONTFIX if we're on a pathway to deprecating use of cairo and this is a rare edge case that likely is not hitting users in the wild. Any objections?

Comment 8

[u279076]

Resolving as WONTFIX since it's been 6 months without anyone speaking up to the validity of this bug report.