Bug#608797: xserver-xorg-core: viewing large image in Firefox causes X server to abort

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Excerpts from Julien Cristau's message of Wed Jan 05 14:49:36 +0100 2011:
> On Wed, Jan  5, 2011 at 09:33:53 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 
> > > Please attach a full backtrace from gdb.
> > 
> > How do I?
> > 
> > The X server just decides to quit, there is no report of crash neither
> > in X log nor in kernel log.
> > 
> You could put a breakpoint on FatalError.  And find out what is
> allocating such an insanely big pixmap.
> 
Yes, it is slightly larger than expected, perhaps there is something
like a few% padding for some alignment?

I was totally expecting Firefox to try to allocate about a dozen of such
pixmaps to store the uncompressed images. Where else would it put them?

I will try to set up breakpoint in FatalError when I get to it.

Thanks

Michal