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From: Matthias Langer <mlangc@×××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:54:17
Message-Id: 1148737381.9776.2.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem by Matthias Langer
1 On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 03:45 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:04 -0700, Steven Susbauer wrote:
3 > >
4 > > On Sat, 27 May 2006, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > > > > > >recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with
7 > > > > > > > >mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After
8 > > > > > > > >visiting
9 > > > > > > > >http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=36939781
10 > > > > > > > >xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal
11 > > > > > > > >is
12 > > > > > > > >impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ...
13 > > > > > > > >
14 > > > > > > > >can anyone with the above combination verify this ?
15 > > > > > > >
16 > > > > > > >Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox.
17 > > > > > > >Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages
18 > > > > > > >I could find in the logs:
19 > > > > > > >
20 > > > > > > ># cat /var/log/messages
21 > > > > > > >...
22 > > > > > > >May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated
23 > > > > > > >unexpectedly
24 > > > > > > >...
25 > > > > > > >
26 > > > > > > ># cat /var/log/kdm.log
27 > > > > > > >...
28 > > > > > > >*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0
29 > > > > > > >***
30 > > > > > > >...
31 > > > > > > >
32 > > > > > > >You probably should file a bug.
33 > > > > > > >Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject.
34 > > > > > >
35 > > > > > >
36 Alexander, as you are the only one so far that can verify this bug, can
37 you post "about:plugins" to
38 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373 ?
39
40 Thanks,
41 Matthias
42
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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us@××××××××.su>