79429 - Mozilla segfaults when viewing the condensed view of Big Brother...

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[George Clinton]

When viewing web pages produced by the Big Brother software mentioned above,
when its viewed in condensed mode for a couple of minutes, Mozilla segfaults
*everytime*.  Please feel free to email me if this is too vague.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This _is_ too vague.  Does it happen on any particular HTML you can attach? 
What build are you using?
Please comment in this bug; do not reply directly to emails.

Comment 2

[George Clinton]

Attachment: Big Brother 1.6d condensed view. (FQDN stripped to protect the guilty)

Comment 3

[George Clinton]

Mozilla 0.9
Redhat 7.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010507

I am using version 1.6d of Big Brother.

To reproduce install BB, then configure it to monitor some machines.  Go to your
BB URL then click on condensed view in the upper lefthand corner.  Let Mozilla
sit there for a few minutes and it will segfault.

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Reporter do you have a stacktrace from the crash and or the talkback id from the
crash?

Comment 5

[Dave]

Loaded the testcase in 2001050708/Linux and let it sit for over 5 minutes and no
crash.
I did, after clicking on a couple of the "red" and "yellow" links, get bugzilla
to complain about having too many tcp connections from my ip address though.
Running netstat revealed 21 connections to mothra.mozilla.org (it could've been
more at the time I got the error).

Comment 6

[George Clinton]

The attached html does *NOT* break mozilla because it doesn't do a meta refresh,
I just attached it because I was asked to.  To duplicate, as stated in the
previous comments, one needs to install Big Brother 1.6d and then configure it
so the condensed view refreshes every 5 minutes (The default).  I try to run
mozilla-bin through gdb to tell you guys the function in which it breaks, but it
looks like the RPM I got wasn't compiled with -g.  I will install the talkback
tarball instead of the Redhat 7.0 RPM. I will keep trying to give you more
information, thanks for your patience.

Comment 7

[George Clinton]

More fun!  When using the tarball it doesn't do it at all!  It seems that the
gecko rendering engine is 2 days? behind though. e.g.

Mozilla 0.9
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505

Again, Mozilla only seems to crash with the Redhat 7.0 rpm and not the tarball
from this location:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9-sea.tar.gz

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hmm..  ccing blizzard. Could this be a matter of compile-time options of some sort?

Comment 9

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

I doubt it.

Comment 10

[Ken Snider]

Likely there was a change between 20010505 and 0507 that fixed the issue.

If the issue is resolved with the later build, then I'm inclined to think this
should be marked WORKSFORME..

Comment 11

[Chris Hiner]

Works for me on linux build 2001060811.