Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

[Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>]

On 03/09/2006 02:50 PM, Winston Smith wrote:
> Could someone check if this link crashes mozilla and firefox as it does
> for me?  Thanks. Win
> 
> $ mozilla 'http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=charlottesville+va'
> 
>>The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
>>This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>>The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>>  (Details: serial 18054 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>>  (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.)
> 
> 
> $ mozilla -v
> 
>>Mozilla 1.7.8, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org, build 2005092713
> 
> 
> I think I recall that the results of 'free' are misleading, but anyway:
> 
> $ free
> 
>>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>Mem:       1556692    1470808      85884          0      96892     863764
>>-/+ buffers/cache:     510152    1046540
>>Swap:       987956      54060     933896
> 
> 
> $ uname -a
> 
>>Linux localhost 2.6.11-1-k7 #1 Mon Jun 20 21:26:23 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> I'm running sarge.
> 
> 

Maybe it's #335708: mozilla-firefox: Firefox crashes with BadAlloc
Tags: confirmed; Merged with #330396, #331673, #334654, #345866; 135
days old.

Please check the bug reports, sounds very familiar to me.

Regards.