Bug#382641: xserver-xorg: View Source Chart extension in Firefox causes Xorg to segfault
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:38:01PM +0100, Adam Trickett wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.0.22
> Severity: important
>
>
> When I try and use the View Source Chart extension in Mozilla Firefox, Xorg segfaults.
> I get thrown out of X, and have to log back in again. If I run the copy of Firefox on
> a Sarge machine via SSH, then Firefox works perfectly on that machine.
>
> Here is the relavent chunk from /var/log/messages
>
> Aug 12 13:29:14 wombat -- MARK --
> Aug 12 13:49:14 wombat -- MARK --
> Aug 12 14:09:14 wombat -- MARK --
> Aug 12 14:16:32 wombat kernel: Xorg[3917]: segfault at ffffffffae400ed0 rip 0000000000474d93 rsp 00007ffffff59010 error 4
> Aug 12 14:16:33 wombat gconfd (adam-4153): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
> Aug 12 14:16:33 wombat gconfd (adam-4153): Exiting
> Aug 12 14:16:34 wombat kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> Aug 12 14:16:34 wombat kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
> Aug 12 14:16:34 wombat kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
> Aug 12 14:19:36 wombat gconfd (adam-7277): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 7277 user 'adam'
>
> I'm running the nVidia proprieatary drivers.
>
> It's very reporducable on my system, so I can do some tests if it will help, e.g. try
> the nv driver, or different X settings.
This is pretty likely to be a problem with the nvidia driver. Could you
test this with nv or vesa and let us know if it's still a problem?
- David Nusinow
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